Accident · 2007-07-24
What the record says
- Event date
- 2007-07-24
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- de Havilland DHC-2 (N995WA)
- Operating rule
- Part 135
- Operator
- Venture Travel, LLC Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- Venture Travel LLC
Probable cause
The pilot's decision to continue under visual flight rules into an area of instrument metrological conditions. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inadequate weather evaluation, and the FAA's inadequate surveillance of the commercial air tour operator.
Source: NTSB case ANC07FA068Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.