Fatal plane crash Recorded from inside the plane

NTSB Identification: DEN84FA308. The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 25894.

Accident occurred Friday, August 10, 1984 in TABERNASH, CO Probable Cause Approval Date: 12/14/1992 Aircraft: CESSNA L-19E, registration: N4584A Injuries: 2 Fatal.

THE AIRPLANE DEPARTED GRANDBY 8/10/84 AND FAILED TO ARRIVE AT ITS DESTINATION. ON 8/23/87, IT WAS FOUND ON THE SLOPE OF A HIGH TREE-COVERED RIDGE. VIDEO TAPE RECOVERED FROM THE WRECKAGE PROVIDED A VISUAL AND AUDIO RECORD OF THE FLIGHT FROM TAKEOFF TO IMPACT. COMPARING THE RECORDING TO A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP, THE FLIGHT WAS SLOWLY CLIMBING BUT ITS ALTITUDE ABOVE THE GROUND WAS DECREASING WHEN IT CRASHED AT THE 10,200-FT LEVEL. DURING THE LAST FEW SECONDS OF THE TAPE, THE TERRAIN DOMINATED THE VIEW THROUGH THE COCKPIT WINDOW. THE PILOT MADE AN APPROXIMATELY 45 to 55-DEG ANGLE BANK TO THE RIGHT, AND THE STALL WARNING HORN COULD BE HEARD 3 TIMES DURING THE APRX. 180 DEG OF TURN. THE AIRPLANE SUBSEQUENTLY STALLED 3 TIMES, SPUN, FLIPPED OVER, AND ENTERED THE TREES. THE DENSITY ALTITUDE WAS JUST ABOVE 13,000 FT.**

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows: IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION, IMPROPER...PILOT IN COMMAND AIRSPEED...NOT MAINTAINED...PILOT IN COMMANDDENSITY ALTITUDE NOT TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHILE ATTEMPTING 180-DEGREE RIGHT TURN AT APPROX. 45 to 55 DEGREES OF BANK ANGLE...PILOT IN COMMAND INSUFFICIENT LIFT AVAILABLE TO COMPLETE THIS MANEUVER SAFELY.

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[LosAngelesFresh1]

@forresterL11 If we were to stay as we were created, we would be a bunch of apes eating our own shit.

[SuperFrankypanky]

did he say hang on ronnie? was that ronnie van zant?

[blastforyou]

I have read of low time pilots flying into "box" canyons out west and not realizing the death traps they are as peaks may be to high to get over and I think this pilot realized he couldn't climb over the peak in front of him due to altitude and then initiated the turn which made the ac lose altitude and desperate situation.. At least the FAA had a way to know what happened.

[alextw13jf]

@BallsworthBallsbury to me this is absolutely creepy and I always feel deeply sorry when another human being dies; I got to this video almost accidentally,

[PetShopMod]

@SuperFrankypanky yes..yes it was.

[BallsworthBallsbury]

is this creepy to anyone else? We're watching the very last sights and sounds that somebody took in before dying. Humans fundamentally have so much in common, we're so similar... I think that's why it makes me so sad to see another one die

[SGH28N]

Thats extraordinary !

[MrErock5353]

@sabbyness nice troll spank!

[VitorBBMV]

@tommydades No tommy he stalled the plane due to a steep turn at high altitude in a low airspeed but yes he was too close to the trees thats why he had no time to recover from the stall plus he made a stall recovering error he kept pulling up the control

[fractalbeliever]

Spruce forests (at high altitude) create deceptive optical illusions of distance (for even the most experienced mountain pilots). It looks as though the pilot mis-judged the height of (and distance to) the up-sloping terrain--until it was too late.

My condolences to the families of the pilot and passenger(s).