# Incident 20020929025419I: Cessna 182P, Sun River, OR, September 29, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 29, 2002, 12:05 local time
- Place: Sun River, OR
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 43.8821° N, 121.4350° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Sunriver, OR, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=43.8821&lon=-121.4350&mi=10
- Aircraft: N182VC, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N182VC) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 182P (registry code 2075816, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182p) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental O-470 series (registry code 17026, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 182P
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,000 total, 1,000 in this make and model, 100 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020929025419I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) ON 9/29/02 THE PIC WAS FLYING AT EIGHT THOUSAND FEET ON AN INSTRUMENT (IFR) FLIGHT PLAN CLEARANCE DEPARTING GEG. SEVERAL MILES NORTH OF SUN RIVER, OREGON WHILE IN IMC CONDITIONS THE PILOT NOTICED FREEZING DRIZZLE. THE AIRCRAFT BEGAN TO PICK UP ICE AND THE PIC REQUESTED A LOWER ALTITUDE FROM ATC. THE CONTROLLER ADVISED HE COULD NOT DESCEND AT THE TIME BUT PROVIDED A VECTOR TO REACH A VOR RADIAL WHERE HE COULD. THE CONTROLLER STATED HE THOUGHT HE WOULD LOSE RADAR COVERAGE OF THE PLANE SO ATC DECLARED AN EMERGENCY FOR THE PIC. DESCENDING TO 7,000 FEET THE PIC REPORTED CLEAR OF CLOUDS AND THE ICE DISSIPATED. THE AIRCRAFT LANDED AT SUN RIVER (S21) SAFELY AND TERMINATED IFR. NO DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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