Cessna 182G accident near Tuba City, AZ
On September 23, 2000, a Cessna 182G (airplane) was involved in an accident near Tuba City, AZ. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- September 23, 2000
- Place
- Tuba City, AZ
- Aircraft
- Cessna 182G · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 36.090°N, 111.131°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001212X21999
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On September 22, 2000, about 2043 hours mountain standard time, a Cessna 182G, N3103S, operated by the pilot, collided with hilly terrain about 1.5 miles northeast of the Tuba City, Arizona, airport. The commercial rated pilot and private rated pilot/passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was destroyed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the personal flight, operating under 14 CFR Part 91, and a visual flight rules flight plan was filed. The flight departed the Phoenix, Arizona, Deer Valley Airport about 1930. The pilot had volunteered to use his airplane for the Flights For Life, Inc. organization, and was transporting blood to Tuba City. The Tuba City airport is a remotely located and unattended airport with no facilities. According to a courier for the hospital, the airplane was to arrive about 2035. The courier arrived about 2025, and about 2030 the pilot-operated runway lights came on. Within 3 to 5 minutes the courier saw an airplane's lights heading toward the airport. The airplane flew from south to north; she estimated about two telephone poles above the airport, continued north, and did not land. The courier estimated that the winds, which were rocking her car, were from the west. After waiting some period of time, she advised the hospital that the airplane did not arrive and she departed. She said the winds were calm at the time of her departure. The airplane was located September 23, 2000, by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP). PILOT/OPERATOR INFORMATION According to information obtained from the pilot's logbook, he had accumulated ab
Probable cause
the pilot's inadvertent descent into terrain on the downwind leg for landing. Contributing to the accident was the dark night and sparse population.
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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.
