- Date
- November 20, 1982, 19:00 local (Nov 21, 1982, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Soda Springs, ID
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4606UCessna TU206G
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report November 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821120069759A
- Case key
- 72638
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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
A search for the aircraft was begun after the pilot's relatives reported it was overdue and residents near the crash site heard the sounds of a low flying plane suddenly terminate. Unofficial reports of the weather indicated it was about 200 ft obscured, 1/4 mi visibility with heavy snow, temp 30 deg, wind 200 deg at 5 KTS. The aircraft was found in February 1983 by a cross-country skier. An investigation revealed it had crashed at high speed in a near vertical dive. The non-instrument rated pilot had not filed a flight plan and no record of a weather briefing was found. There were no communications with the pilot after he departed the salt lake city area. He had been assigned a discrete transponder code during departure and had not changed the code, thus a radar track was obtained. The radar showed a continuous track to the area of the accident, then was intermittently lost and remained in "bobs and weaves" until it disappeared. No preimpact/mechanical malfunction or failures were found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4606U
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20604998
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-M, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Victor O. Hegsted, Jr.
- Registered owner
- H. Reed Alderson
- Departed
- SLC · Salt Lake City, UT
- Destination
- IDA · Idaho Falls, ID
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 624 total · 343 in this make and model · 571 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft
- Temperature
- 86 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.