# NTSB Accident ANC17FA021
> **CESSNA 208B** · 2017-05-01 · Chignik Lake, AK, USA · FATL
## Event
- **NTSB number:** ANC17FA021
- **Event ID:** 20170502X12758
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2017-05-01
- **Location:** Chignik Lake, AK, USA
- **Coordinates:** 56.140277, -158.804992
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** FATL
- **Fatal:** 1
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 0
- **Total aboard:** 1
## Aircraft
- **Make:** CESSNA
- **Model:** 208B
- **Registration:** N803TH
- **FAR Part:** 135
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** SUBS
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** IMC
## Probable cause

The pilot's continued visual flight rules flight into an area of mountainous terrain and instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). Contributing to the accident was the company's failure to provide the pilot with CFIT-avoidance recurrent simulator training as required by their CFIT avoidance program and the company's inadequate flight risk assessment processes, which did not account for the known weather hazards relevant to the accident route of flight.

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