Cessna 182M N70946
3 June 2009 · Atlanta, Idaho, United States · Fatal
Summary
On 3 June 2009 at about 20:21 local time, a Cessna 182M registered N70946 was involved in an accident near Atlanta, Idaho, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 20:21
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Atlanta, Idaho, United States
- Nearest airport
- Boise Air Terminal (Gowen Fld) (KBOI)
- Coordinates
- 43.9358, -115.1517
- Aircraft
- Cessna 182M
- Registration
- N70946
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Boise Air Termi → Unknown
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- WPR09FA282
People
1 person died.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain terrain clearance during cruise flight.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The single engine airplane impacted a vertical rock cliff face in mountainous terrain about 500 feet below a mountain ridge line. Global Positioning System (GPS) data was recovered from a portable GPS unit that was located with the airplane wreckage. The GPS data track originated in the vicinity of the departure airport, and proceeded at 8,350 feet mean sea level (msl) northeast for 57 miles, and abruptly ends in the vicinity of the accident site. During the last 2 minutes of the flight, the track increased in altitude from 8,350 feet to 8,891 feet msl. The height of the mountain ridge line directly ahead of the airplanes' flight path was between 9,100 feet and 9,580 feet msl. The end of the GPS track did not exhibit any deviations that could be interpreted as an evasive maneuver. The cloud coverage in the vicinity of the accident location was between scattered and broken, with bases between 8,000 and 9,000 feet msl, cloud tops were about 15,000 feet msl, with visibility greater than 3 miles in cloud-free areas.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Cessna 182 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Feb 2009 | Cessna 182M | Albany, Louisiana, United States | - | Fatal | 3 |
| 20 Feb 2009 | Cessna 182 | Kelleys Island, Ohio, United States | Paul D Hiller | No injuries | - |
| 24 Sep 2009 | Cessna 182 | Enterprise, Oregon, United States | Hope Aviation LLC | No injuries | - |
| 11 Dec 2009 | Cessna 182P | Payson, Arizona, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 22 Apr 2009 | Cessna 182T | Rangely, Colorado, United States | Global Lease Finance LLC | No injuries | - |
| 22 Aug 2009 | Cessna 182 | Weeping Water, Nebraska, United States | Lincoln Sport Parachute Club Inc. | No injuries | - |
All 6,261 records for this type
Other accidents in this area
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jul 2009 | Flight CTSW | Sulphur Creek, Idaho, United States | Heller Roger W | No injuries | - |
| 21 Aug 2009 | Paul B Johnson AVID MARK IV | Nampa, Idaho, United States | Paul B. Johnson | No injuries | - |
| 8 Oct 2009 | Cessna 180 | Pistol Creek, Idaho, United States | Maslen Holbrook | No injuries | - |
| 24 Dec 2009 | Cessna 172M | Albion, Idaho, United States | Thaddeus Fickel | No injuries | - |
| 20 Jul 2009 | Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B | Rockland, Idaho, United States | Agrijet Inc | Minor injuries | - |
| 12 Jun 2009 | Cessna 150 | Nampa, Idaho, United States | - | No injuries | - |