- Date
- January 18, 1971
- Place
- Rapid City, SD · RAPID CITY, SD
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9273VMooney M20E
- Status
- Completed · report October 19, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 159423
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0155 71/1/18 RAPID CITY,S DAK MOONEY M20E CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 34, 670 TIME - 1742 N9273V PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 627 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - RAPID CITY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MARSHFIELD,WIS RAPID CITY,S DAK TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED ALTITUDE FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - SNOW WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT MISSING AIRCRAFT - LATER RECOVERED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 400 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 3 MILES OR LESS SNOW OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F NONE 19 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 130 7 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR SPECIAL VFR REMARKS- BTWN ELLSWORTH AFB AND RAPID CTY MUN RPTD ALT 3300FT.HIT UPSLOPE OF 3365FT HILL ABT 15FT BLO CREST
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9273V
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Rapid City
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