Cessna 207 Skywagon/Stationair crash, Apr 14, 1999 (1 killed)
Cessna 207 Skywagon/Stationair accident on April 14, 1999 near Kotzebue-Ralph Wien Memorial, Alaska, United States with 1 fatality. Cause: The pilot's...
- Date: April 14, 1999
- Aircraft: Cessna 207 Skywagon/Stationair
- Location: Kotzebue-Ralph Wien Memorial, Alaska, United States
- Fatalities: 1
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: The pilot's continued VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions, leading to spatial disorientation and an inadvertent stall, with fog and flat lighting as contributing factors.
A Village Aviation Cessna 207 cargo flight from Noorvik to Kotzebue, Alaska, continued under visual rules into deteriorating fog and snow. The airplane came down on a frozen lagoon near the destination in a nose-down attitude and came to rest inverted with the engine separated. The pilot was killed.