- Date
- November 4, 1992, 22:30 local (Nov 5, 1992, 05:30 UTC)
- Place
- Evanston, WY
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4935JPiper PA-28R-180
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921104045139A
- Case key
- 42958
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Probable cause
The pilot's disregard of hazardous weather advisory, resulting in flt into forecast icing conditions in an acft not equipped or certified for the flt, and the improper inflt planning by pilot during the VFR approach that resulted in impact with terrain short of the runway. A factor relating to the accident was the pilot diverted his attention to scraping ice from the windshield during the VFR approach for landing.
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
The pilot obtained a wx briefing, filed a flt plan and took off on an IFR x country flt into an area of forecast moderate icing conditions in an acft not equipped or certified for the flt. When he encountered acft icing during the flt, he requested radar vectors to the nearest airport, and was cleared for an instrument approach for landing. After flying the approach, the pilot circled in VMC while scraping ice from the windshield for visby to land. The acft descended below the level of the aprt, located on a bluff, and was unable to climb to reach the runway for landing. The acft impacted on the side of the bluff 1/2 mile from the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4935J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-306657
- Airframe hours
- 5,484
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B1E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Aero Center 1, Inc
- Registered owner
- Sky Air, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 9, 1992 · 37 hours before
- Departed
- GCC · Gillette, WY
- Destination
- SLC · Salt Lake City, UT
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- EVW · Uinta County, runway 23, 7,301 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 21
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 432 total · 74 in this make and model · 374 as pilot in command · 113 in the last 90 days · 46 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 210° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EVW, 1 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.