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Factual Report: Icing eyed in caravan crash

CESSNA 208, PARKS, ARIZ., NOV.

By David A. Lombardo • Contributor

January 31, 2007

CESSNA 208, PARKS, ARIZ., NOV. 8, 2002–At approximately 10:20 a.m. (MST) a Cessna 208B (N514DB), operated by Brown County Financial Services, LLC, of Snyder, Texas, was destroyed when it crashed approximately three miles south of Parks, Ariz., about 16 nm northwest of Flagstaff. The commercial pilot, a private-pilot-rated passenger and two other passengers were killed. The FAR Part 91 flight had departed Las Vegas, Nev., at 9:19 a.m. (MST) for Midland, Texas.

At 8:44 a.m., the pilot contacted the Fort Worth, Texas, Automated Flight Service Station to file an IFR flight plan. The pilot told the briefer that he planned to leave Las Vegas at 9 a.m. and cruise at 12,000 feet. The route of flight was to proceed via Peach Springs, Flagstaff and Winslow, Ariz.; Zuni, Albuquerque, Corona and Roswell/Chisum, N.M.; and end at Midland. The pilot told the briefer he planned for four hours en route and had six hours of fuel on board.

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