Skip to content

DEN78FA027

1978-02-27 · BIG PINEY, Wyoming, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N878T has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (SMITH GILBERT T SMITH HIMAX 1400 Z, built 2009), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH A90 · N878T
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
ED
Operator type
Business
Airport
BIG PINEY
Kind of flying
B3

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST
Wind
320° / 2 kt
Temp
23° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000LJ-246
Total time
6,430 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
10,515
Age
48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERSONNEL.

Investigator remarks

WX TRANSMITTED TO PILOTS FROM BIG PINEY GROUND P

Cause factors

  • 64/A/26 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/D J
    WEATHER SNOW Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3058. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3058.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Search this event elsewhere

External sources are reported, not agency: signal that something happened, not fact about what happened.