Cessna 182F accident near Burlington, CO
On April 6, 2004, a Cessna 182F (airplane) was involved in an accident near Burlington, CO. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- April 6, 2004
- Place
- Burlington, CO
- Aircraft
- Cessna 182F · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 39.550°N, 102.212°W
- NTSB ID
- 20040408X00428
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On April 6, 2004, at 0730 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 182F, N3524Y, was destroyed when it impacted terrain 12 miles north of the Kit Carson County Airport (ITR), Burlington, Colorado. The private pilot, the sole person on board, sustained fatal injuries. The personal, cross-country flight from Boulder, Colorado, to Chanute, Kansas, was being conducted under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 without a flight plan. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The flight originated at 0615. The pilot's wife stated that he checked the weather conditions the night before the accident flight and determined that he would takeoff early to preclude flying through scattered rain showers forecasted for Kansas in the afternoon. She said early the morning of the flight, the pilot checked the weather channel again and made telephone calls to Burlington, Colorado, Hutchison, Kansas, and Chanute, Kansas. She said she assumed he was checking the weather conditions at those locations. A line worker at the Boulder Municipal Airport (1V5) said he put 37 gallons of fuel in the airplane, just before the pilot took off. The fuel receipt from the purchase indicated this took place at 0550. A computer-generated flight profile found in the airplane wreckage showed the pilot proposed to depart 1V5 at 0615. His route of flight block showed "north, fly around DIA (Denver International Airport) at 7,500 feet, direct to Chanute, Kansas." His cruising altitude block showed 11,500 feet, and his estimated time en route showed 3 hours and 28 minutes.
Probable cause
loss of aircraft control due to structural icing. Factors contributing to the accident were the pilot's inadvertent flight into adverse weather conditions, the icing conditions, and ice fog.
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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.
