Piper PA-28-180 accident near Jamestown, CA
On February 11, 1995, a Piper PA-28-180 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Jamestown, CA. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- February 11, 1995
- Place
- Jamestown, CA
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-28-180 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 37.850°N, 120.490°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001207X02975
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On February 11, 1995, at 1255 hours Pacific standard time, a Canadian registered Piper PA-28-180, CFCNW, crashed in an open field next to State Highway 108, shortly after departing from State Highway 108 and Green Springs Road, about 6 miles southwest of Jamestown, California. The pilot was beginning a visual flight rules (VFR) personal flight to Columbia Airport, Columbia, California. The airplane, registered to and operated by the pilot, was destroyed. The certificated private pilot (Canadian), the sole occupant, sustained fatal injuries. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Air Traffic Division, Western-Pacific Region, quality assurance specialist told National Transportation Safety Board investigators that the pilot contacted the Yuma Approach Control on February 10, 1995, at 0959 hours while flying at 10,500 feet mean sea level. The pilot requested and received VFR radar services and filed a VFR flight plan to Redding, California. The pilot canceled the VFR flight plan with Rancho Murietta (California) Flight Service Station at 1541 hours. A Yuma Approach Control supervisor said that the airplane did not depart Yuma International Airport. Safety Board investigators were unable to determine where the flight to Redding, California, originated. One witness told Safety Board investigators that she observed the accident airplane land on State Highway 108 on February 10, 1995. She said that she was driving east on State Highway 108 when she observed the accident airplane flying very low over the westbound
Probable cause
the pilot's intentional flight into IMC conditions and subsequent in-flight loss of control due to spatial disorientation.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
