About 0910 mountain standard time on January 3, 1983, a Canadair Challenger CL-600, N805C, operated by the A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Inc., Decatur, Illinois, crashed into a mountain about 2.2 nautical miles north of Friedman Memorial Airport, Hailey, Idaho (Sun Valley Airport). At the time, the airplane was proceeding to land at the airport. Shortly before the accident, N805C had completed an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight from Decatur to Sun Valley Airport and had descended in visual flight rules (VFR) flight conditions. The weather at the airport was overcast, ceilings were reported to have been between 800 and 1,500 feet overcast, and the visibility was 10 miles. The base of the clouds were below the tops of the surrounding mountains. N805C missed the airport, flew to the north over the town of Hailey, and into an area of lowering ceilings and worsening visibility. After passing the airport, the pilot attempted to climb above the mountains. The airplane was destroyed during the impact, and the pilot and the copilot, the only persons on board, were killed in the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was in the flightcrew's failure to adhere to the recommended visual arrival procedures for the Sun Valley Airport and its failure to execute timely terrain avoidance actions.


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    Titel :

    Aircraft Accident Report - A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Inc., Canadair Challenger CL-600, N805C, Hailey, Idaho, January 3, 1983


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1983


    Format / Umfang :

    336 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch