Cessna 182K accident near Sedona, AZ
On September 24, 2006, a Cessna 182K (airplane) was involved in an accident near Sedona, AZ. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- September 24, 2006
- Place
- Sedona, AZ
- Aircraft
- Cessna 182K · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 34.977°N, 111.899°W
- NTSB ID
- 20061026X01560
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On September 24, 2006, at 1043 mountain standard time, a Cessna 182K, N2700Q, departed Deer Valley Airport (DVT), Phoenix, Arizona, en route to Sedona Airport (SEZ), Sedona, Arizona. The pilot was operating the airplane under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal cross-country flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed in the central Arizona area on the day of the flight, and no flight plan had been filed. When the airplane did not reach its planned destination, concerned family members contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the airplane became the subject of an Alert Notice (ALNOT). A search was initiated, but the airplane was not located and positively identified for another 31 months. At that time, the wreckage, to include the partial remains of its occupants, was found in a steep narrow canyon about ten miles northwest of Sedona. Because the pilot elected not to request flight following services, he had not been assigned a discreet transponder beacon code, and therefore the airplane would have been expected to be transmitting an altitude encoding transponder code 1200. Recorded radar data was analyzed to find a code 1200 beacon departing Deer Valley Airport at the appropriate time and proceeding north along the anticipated flight track of an airplane en route from the Deer Valley area to the Sedona area. Such a 1200 code track was identified adjacent to the Deer Valley Airport at 1044:46. The target was first identified at a Mode C reported altitude of 2,300 feet mean sea level (msl), and
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from trees and terrain while maneuvering in mountainous/hilly terrain in a high density altitude environment.
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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.
