Accident · 1998-11-06

What the record says

Event date

1998-11-06

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Fatal injury

Aircraft

Cessna TR182 (N756YE)

Operating rule

PUBU

Operator

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Operator named in NTSB report

Operated by (per NTSB report)

U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE

Probable cause

The pilot's failure to maintain adequate altitude and/or clearance over a power line crossing the river, resulting in collision with a static wire at the top of the crossing structure. Factors included the static wire, and inadequate marking of the static wire.

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.