Cessna 177RG accident near Dalhart, TX
On March 30, 1995, a Cessna 177RG (airplane) was involved in an accident near Dalhart, TX. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- March 30, 1995
- Place
- Dalhart, TX
- Aircraft
- Cessna 177RG · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 36.061°N, 102.511°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001207X03111
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On March 30, 1995, at 1130 central standard time, a Cessna 177RG, N35917, was destroyed while maneuvering near Dalhart, Texas. The non-instrument rated private pilot was fatally injured. No flight plan was filed for the personal cross-country flight. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed. Records found in the airplane indicated the pilot had originally departed from North Carolina and was en route to Albuquerque, New Mexico. After refueling in Guymon, Oklahoma, at 1636 on March 29, 1995, he flew into the Dalhart Municipal Airport (DHT) arriving about 1710. According to the fixed base operator, the pilot had planned to continue on to Albuquerque that evening; however, after speaking with other pilots who were delaying their departures due to reported icing conditions, decided to remain overnight at Dalhart. He told an employee of the fixed base operator that he was "worried about his job" and was expected to report for work at midnight that evening. After calling his place of work, the pilot remarked to the employee that "the lady he was talking to hung up on him." He then spent the night sleeping on a couch in the lounge of the terminal building. About 1000 on the day of the accident, the pilot conversed with another pilot who had driven to the airport and remarked that "he needed to get to Albuquerque and may try and follow the highway." The other pilot advised him that he had just driven through snow on his way into town from the west. According to the fixed base operator, the airplane departed approximately 1015 and, about 1115, the pilot calle
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S VFR FLIGHT INTO IMC CONDITIONS AND THE ENSUING SPATIAL DISORIENTATION. FACTORS WERE THE PILOT'S SELF-INDUCED PRESSURE TO REACH HIS DESTINATION, HIS FAILURE TO OBTAIN A WEATHER BRIEFING FOR THE FLIGHT, AND THE WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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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.
