# NTSB Accident WPR10LA259
> **SOCATA TB-20** · 2010-05-22 · Happy Camp, CA, USA · FATL
## Event
- **NTSB number:** WPR10LA259
- **Event ID:** 20100524X74604
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2010-05-22
- **Location:** Happy Camp, CA, USA
- **Coordinates:** 41.738056, -123.391113
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** FATL
- **Fatal:** 1
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 0
- **Total aboard:** 1
## Aircraft
- **Make:** SOCATA
- **Model:** TB-20
- **Registration:** N3041Y
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** SUBS
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** VMC
## Probable cause

The pilot’s inadequate preflight planning and decision to continue to operate under visual flight rules into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in an encounter with an embedded thunderstorm and rain showers and moderate to severe turbulence, which ultimately resulted in the loss of airplane control.

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