- Date
- December 22, 1992, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Moran Junction, WY
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6072GCessna 150K
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921222053459A
- Case key
- 42971
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's attempting flight into known adverse weather conditions and his subsequent inability to maintain altitude. Factors contributing to the accident were icing conditions and trees.
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 departing the santa monica area of California en route to billings, Montana, to spend christmas with his sister, the pilot stopped in ogden, Utah, and received a VFR not recommended weather briefing for the ogden to jackson, Wyoming, leg of the flight. The pilot departed for jackson without a flight plan and upon arrival was discouraged from continuing on his flight to billings by FBO personal at the jackson hole airport. One FBO employee described the weather at jackson as 'horrible'. The pilot fueled and subsequently departed for livingston, Montana, filing no flight plan and obtaining no weather briefing update. Shortly after departure he encountered reduced visibility and attempted to return to the jackson hole airport. The aircraft began picking up ice and snow and the pilot was unable to maintain altitude and began a descent. During the descent, the aircraft collided with a tree and descended out of control to the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6072G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071572
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kohut, Robert J.
- Registered owner
- Kohut, Robert J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 12, 1992 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- JAC · Jackson Hole, WY
- Destination
- LVM · Livingston, MT
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 360 total · 320 in this make and model · 360 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Observed at
- WEY, 56 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.