Cessna 208B accident near Heyburn, ID
On April 13, 2022, a Cessna 208B (airplane) was involved in an accident near Heyburn, ID. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- April 13, 2022
- Place
- Heyburn, ID
- Aircraft
- Cessna 208B · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 42.551°N, 113.760°W
- NTSB ID
- 20220413104938
Official records · WPR22FA151
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn April 13, 2022, about 0832 mountain daylight time (MDT), a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, N928JP, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Heyburn, Idaho. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 135 cargo flight. The pilot was transporting cargo on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight from Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) Salt Lake City, Utah to Burley Municipal Airport (BYI), Burley, Idaho under the call sign Gem Air 1826. According to ForeFlight records, the pilot received an online weather briefing for BYI at 0506 on the morning of the accident and filed an IFR flight plan from SLC to BYI at 0553. The flight plan indicated a proposed departure time of 0700 and an estimated time en route of 1 hour and 7 minutes at an altitude of 12,000 ft above mean sea level (msl) with 4 hours of fuel onboard. According to ADS-B data, the airplane began to taxi at SLC about 0655 and departed runway 16L about 0700. The climb and en route portions of the flight to BYI were uneventful. ADS-B data and winds aloft were used to capture the airplane’s altitude, position, and airspeed during the initial portions of the two approaches to BYI runway 20. The ADS-B data ended about 4,800 ft msl, or about 660 ft above ground level (agl), which was about the time the airplane approached the JAMID stepdown fix. After passing JAMID, a performance study was used for calculating data. As the airplane approached BYI, the air traffic control (ATC) approach controller issued the pilot
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain altitude during an instrument approach, which resulted in a descent below the approach path and impact with a vent stack. Also causal was the failure of the processing plant to correctly paint the vent stacks, which had been determined by the FAA to be a hazard to navigation due to their proximity to the landing approach path. Contributing to the accident was the li
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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.
