Cessna 182G accident near Big Creek, ID
On July 25, 1997, a Cessna 182G (airplane) was involved in an accident near Big Creek, ID. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- July 25, 1997
- Place
- Big Creek, ID
- Aircraft
- Cessna 182G · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 45.019°N, 115.519°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001208X08519
NTSB summary
On July 25, 1997, approximately 1310 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 182G, N3134S, struck a tree and crashed following a low pass over the Root Ranch private airstrip northeast of Big Creek, Idaho. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a post-crash fire, and the private pilot, who owned the aircraft, and an airline transport pilot/flight instructor, were killed. According to records recovered from the aircraft wreckage, the airplane had last departed the Flying B Ranch airstrip, a private airstrip west of Salmon, Idaho and approximately 25 nautical miles southeast of the Root Ranch airstrip. Visual meteorological conditions were reported at Salmon at 1314, and no flight plan had been filed for the 14 CFR 91 instructional flight. According to personnel at McCall Air Taxi of McCall, Idaho, of whom the flight instructor aboard the accident aircraft was the chief pilot, the trip during which the accident occurred began on the day of the accident at McCall. McCall Air Taxi personnel indicated that the instructor had blocked out her schedule with "student" for the afternoon of the accident flight, and that N3134S was fueled prior to departure from McCall (according to Cessna delivery records, the accident aircraft was manufactured with extended-range fuel tanks of 84 gallons total capacity.) The records recovered from the aircraft wreckage indicated that an 0.7 hour flight from McCall to the Flying B Ranch was accomplished prior to the accident flight. According to the Idaho state airport directory, the Root Ranch airstrip is a 1,900 foot long, north-south oriented air
Probable cause
The flightcrew's failure to maintain clearance from trees. A factor was trees north of the departure end of the airstrip.
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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.
