Tragic Utah Crash Involving a “1966 Cessna Piper 28-21490”

[FlyingElvii]

The circumstances of the crash are truly tragic, to be sure. The Female pilot was very experienced, and sounds like a hell of a person to have known. This post is not about that.

We make memes about how the media describes these things, but here it is, in real life, from the article:

“Federal Aviations Administration lists that Seigel had a commercial pilot certificate and instrument qualifications for helicopters and had private privileges for a single engine land airplane like her 1966 Cessna Piper 28-21490 she was flying Thursday.”

https://www.havredailynews.com/stor...ughter-die-in-plane-crash-in-utah/534367.html

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Was a Piper PA 28-140, N6323R

https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?NNumberTxt=6323R

Aviation Safety
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/264175

Tracking data on FlightAware unavailable.

I suspect a lot of the general public think of Cessna generically as a name for any small single engine GA aircraft.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Agreed speculative. It looks like it was about 20 mins after sunset. That is on the west side of the Great Salt Lake and a lot fewer lights over there to indicate the presence of a mountain. There was a full moon.

Flying over mountains at night in a single is not a choice I would normally make with passengers, and only rarely solo.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Wow, deliberately flying at night over mountainous terrain with a passenger and clearing terrain by small amounts. Terrible ADM. So sorry for the families loss.

I do wonder if plane not equipped with ADS-B out so poor choices being made.