Cessna 182F N3375U

Summary

On 20 October 1983 at about 20:00 local time, a Cessna 182F registered N3375U was involved in an accident near Burke, South Dakota, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

20 October 1983 at 20:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Burke, South Dakota, United States

Coordinates

43.1793, -99.2909

Aircraft

Cessna 182F

Registration

N3375U

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Gregory → Terre Haute

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DEN84FA010

2 people died.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

PRIOR TO THE FLT, THE PLT OBTAINED A WX BRIEFING & WAS ADVISED THAT VFR FLT WAS NOT RECOMMENDED. AT THE END OF THE BRIEFING, HE INDICATED HE WOULD 'BE GETTING BACK WITH' THE FSS SPECIALIST. THE PLT THEN TOLD THE ARPT MANAGER THAT HE WOULD 'GO UP & TAKE A LOOK AT THE WX', & IF IT WAS TOO BAD, HE WOULD RETURN & LAND. WITNESSES HEARD & SAW THE ACFT NEAR THE CRASH SITE. THEY REPORTED THAT IT FLEW OVER IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION, THEN TURNED BACK TO THE WEST. SHORTLY AFTER REVERSING DIRECTION, THE ACFT STRUCK A GUY WIRE TO A TV TOWER, APRX 180 FT AGL, THEN IT CRASHED TO THE GROUND. A DEPUTY SHERIFF ESTIMATED THE GROUND LEVEL VISIBILITY WAS BETWEEN 1/8 & 1/4 MI WITH FOG & THE CEILING WAS 150 TO 200 FT. THE PLT HAD LOGGED ONLY 2.9 HRS INSTRUMENT TIME IN THE PREVIOUS 6 MOS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.