14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Wednesday, April 25, 2012 in Blanding, UT
Aircraft: CESSNA A185F, registration: N243W
Injuries: 3 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On April 25, 2012, about 1538 mountain daylight time, a Cessna A185F, N243W, collided with terrain in the Dark Canyon Wilderness area near Blanding, Utah. The pilot was operating the airplane under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The pilot and two pilot-rated passengers were fatally injured. The airplane sustained substantial damaged during the accident sequence, and was consumed by post impact fire. The cross-country personal flight departed from a backcountry airstrip known as Hidden Splendor about 1449, with a presumed destination of Carbon County Regional Airport/Buck Davis Field (PUC), Price, Utah. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed.
The airplane departed PUC about 0700, with the airplane's owner, his father, and a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) employed at the Redtail Aviation Fixed Base Operator (FBO). According to friends of the CFI, he had extensive experience flying in the canyon areas of southern Utah, and as such, was approached by the airplane owner to act as a guide to navigate the local terrain and scenery. About 1200, employees at Redtail Aviation received a notification from the Federal Aviation (FAA) Area Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) that a commercial airplane, overflying the Canyonlands area, had received a message over the radio from the CFI. The message indicated that they had landed at Hidden Splendor, and that the airplane had a flat tire. The CFI utilized a SPOT Personal Locator device, and about the same time, the SPOT locator service received a, "NEED HELP" alert from the unit. A pilot and mechanic subsequently departed from PUC, with a spare tire and tools, to render assistance. They arrived mid-afternoon, and having assisted with the replacement of the tire, departed a short time later. Data obtained from the SPOT service indicated that the accident airplane subsequently departed about 1500, and continued on a southeast heading for the next 40 minutes. At 1538, and for the next 12 hours, the unit began a series of transmissions all from the same location.
The airplane had not arrived back at PUC by nightfall, and as such, employees from Redtail Aviation reported the airplane missing to the San Juan County Sheriff's office. A search was initiated by a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter, and utilizing the coordinates provided by the SPOT device, the airplane was located about 0200 the following morning.
The wreckage was located about 30 miles northwest of Blanding, at an elevation of 6,900 feet mean sea level (msl). The fuselage came to rest on a heading of 040 degrees magnetic, facing uphill within a 20-degree sloping wash. The wash was comprised of flat sandstone, and the surrounding area consisted of brush and pine trees ranging in height of between 5 and 15 feet. The airplane remained upright, with the engine intact and impaled against a semicircular stratified abutment, which surrounded the airplane to the north. The fuselage sustained minimal longitudinal crush damage. The majority of the structure and cabin contents forward of the tailcone, including a 30-foot-long swath of vegetation, was consumed by fire. The empennage section, aft of the fire line, sustained no discernible damage.
All major sections of the airplane were accounted for within the immediate vicinity of the accident site.
Larry Newby
April 16, 1957 - April 25, 2012
April 16, 1957 - April 25, 2012
Larry Dale Newby took his final flight on April 25, 2012. He was born April 16, 1957 in Price, Utah to William Payton and Leslie Charlene Cook Newby.
Larry was a great husband, father, brother, friend and made everyone feel they were his priority. He married Sue Eskelsen on March 28, 1983. They have two children that are his pride and joy. He was the best friend to his family and always there for them, in sun and storm.
Larry is survived by his wife, Sue Newby; son, Nicholas Newby (Chelsey Warburton); daughter, Andraya “Roonie” Montgomery (Scotty); two brothers, Bill and Johnny Newby; sister, Dona Nay (Allen); mother-in-law, Jan Barber; and many other family members and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father, William Payton Newby; mother, Leslie Cook Henderson; and father-in-law, Thayne Eskelsen
A Celebration of Life will be held Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 3:00 p.m., at the Carbon County Airport Hanger. Friends are encouraged to join the family at the Airport Tuesday beginning at 1:30 p.m. Interment, Cliffview Cemetery, Price. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome to share memories of Larry at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net
Should my end come, while I am in flight, whether brightest day or darkest night, spare me your pity and shrug off your pain, secure in the knowledge that I’d do it again. For each of us is created to die, and within me I know, I was born to fly.” -Author Unknown.
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