Accident · 1997-04-10
What the record says
- Event date
- 1997-04-10
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Cessna 208B (N408GV)
- Operating rule
- Part 135
- Operator
- Hageland Aviation Services, Inc. Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- HAGELAND AVIATION SERVICES
Probable cause
The pilot's intentional VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions and his failure to maintain altitude/clearance from terrain. Factors contributing to the accident were the weather conditions.
Source: NTSB case ANC97MA161Flight 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.