Accident · 2002-03-15
What the record says
- Event date
- 2002-03-15
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Cessna 208B (N228PA)
- Operating rule
- Part 135
- Operator
- Priority Air Charter, LLC Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- Priority Air Charter
Probable cause
The pilot not removing the ice contamination from the airplane prior to departure and the pilot intentionally flying into known severe icing conditions, resulting in the aircraft not being able to maintain altitude/clearance from the terrain. Factors to the accident included the icing conditions and the trees encountered during the forced landing.
Source: NTSB case CHI02FA093Flight 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.