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Cessna 310 impacts mountains more than 150nm off course

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The Cessna was on a VFR flight from Flagstaff Pulliam (KFLG)to Tucumcari Muni (KTCC). It crashed into high ground (11,600') in San Juan County near Ironton, Colorado, which puts it around 150nm off course. (aviation-safety.net) More...

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matt jensen 3
FLG-AMA - heck a blind squirrel can follow I40. So has anyone explained why it was off course in the San Juan Mtns?
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LoralThomas
Loral Thomas 1
Hot, high and heavy -- predictable results.
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bentwing60
bentwing60 1
Not quite sure how runway performance ties in to gross navigational errors, but if you say so!
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LoralThomas
Loral Thomas 1
Not runway performance. They were over 11K ft. Maybe sightseeing trip gone bad.
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bentwing60
bentwing60 1
I understand the implications of the three H's on enroute performance as well, when one hits a mountain 150 miles north of the intended course I don't think that's the crux of the problem. Pretty strange.
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preacher1
preacher1 3
Well, as Matt says above, a blind squirrel could follow I40. Something here not being told, mainly why was he 150 miles off course.
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linbb
linbb 1
Read all the news accounts of it, hmm, seems they launched the CAP around a half hour before the crash. Time line wrong somehow but found nothing about it being off course in them.
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