- Date
- June 19, 1992, 13:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Window Rock, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N589CStinson 108-3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920619025589A
- Case key
- 27655
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to calculate the aircraft's performance data and perform a weather evauluation. The existing high density altitude was a factor in the accident.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
After receiving his preflight weather briefing the pilot took off in his 166 horsepower, heavily loaded airplane, from an airport with a density altitude of 9,988 feet mean sea level. There is no evidence that the pilot calculated the density altitude or the aircraft's performance prior to the takeoff. As the aircraft climbed through 400 feet above the ground it encountered a down draft and began to descend. The aircraft then began to climb again and the pilot entered a turn to return to the airport. During the turn, the aircraft entered a descent and collided with the terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N589C
- Reported as
- Stinson 108-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108-3589
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4-165-83, 166 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stone, Daniel K.
- Registered owner
- Stone, Daniel K.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- P34
- Destination
- OUF · Denver, CO
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,300 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 18,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GUP, 15 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.