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May 12, 2010 - On
Friday, May 7, 2010, about 10:06 AM Pacific daylight time, a Cessna
T206H, N663HP, collided with mountainous terrain in the The commercial pilot, Officer Danny Benavides, 39, was killed, and the airplane was substantially damaged and consumed by a post accident fire. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a company flight plan had been filed.
The flight
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Representatives of
the California Highway Patrol (CHP) stated that between 8:30 AM and 9:20
AM the airplane was performing traffic surveillance activities with
numerous CHP ground units in the vicinity of SR86 and
The CHP officers
decided to transfer their activities to I-8 and
At 10:06 AM, the
dispatch operator for the California Department of Parks and Recreation
received a call that someone saw smoke in the vicinity of
Naval Air Field El
Centro, located 30 miles southeast of the accident location, reported
weather conditions at 9:56 AM as clear sky, winds 010 degrees at 5
knots, and 10 miles visibility.
Benavides was a 13-year patrol officer with the California Highway
Patrol. The NTSB released it preliminary report on Monday however,
the report did not reveal the cause of the accident.
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