Cessna 550 Crash in San Diego: Pilot Fatigue and Inoperative ASOS...

n666ds pilot The accident aircraft was being flown as single pilot, and it is likely that the accident pilot selected “APPR” mode on the Sperry AP/FD control panel after receiving his ATC approach clearance, fully intending to let the autopilot fly the GPS LPV 28 approach all the way down to landing..

n666ds owner  A Cessna Citation 550 struck high-voltage power lines while approaching Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in San Diego just before 4 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on May 22. The aircraft was approaching the end of the second leg of a long overnight from New York in instrument conditions and without the benefit of a local altimeter setting—which may become a focus of the NTSB investigation.

n666ds  Records obtained by CBS 8 show the plane, with a tail number of N666DS is a Cessna Citation built in 1985 and is registered to an Alaska-based LLC named, Daviator LLC, which is based in Homer ...