Accident · 1998-03-05

What the record says

Event date

1998-03-05

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Fatal injury

Aircraft

Cessna 208B (N840FE)

Operating rule

Part 135

Operator

Baron Aviation Services, Inc. Operator named in NTSB report

Operated by (per NTSB report)

BARON AVIATION SERVICES INC.

Probable cause

the pilot did not maintain control of the airplane due to undetected airframe ice, resulting in an inadvertent stall, and subsequent impact with the ground. Factors in this accident were; flight into clouds, below freezing temperatures, and the inability of the pilot to detect ice, due to the lack of an ice detection system to determine ice build up on portions of the airframe that are not visible from the cockpit.

Flight 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.