# Incident 20040907024509I: Cessna 421C, Stockton, CA, September 7, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 7, 2004, 20:00 local time
- Place: Stockton, CA
- Airport: Stockton Metropolitan
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.8933° N, 121.2381° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Stockton Metropolitan Airport (SCK), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.8933&lon=-121.2381&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5354J (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 421C
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040907024509I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT GARRISON WAS OPERATING THE AIRCRAFT IN PART 91 OPERATION, HAVING DEPARTED SAC FOR DIRECT FLIGHT TO PALM SPRINGS, CA. AT FL 170, PILOT REPORTED THE RIGHT HAND WINDSHIELD SEGMENT RUPTURED SUDDENLY. THE RESULTING DEPRESSURIZATION PARTIALLY FRACTURED THE PILOTS WINDSHIELD SEGMENT AS WELL. PILOT GARRISON CONTACTED SAC DEPARTURE, DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND REQUESTED VECTORS TO SCK. AN UNEVENTFUL LANDING WAS MADE AT SCK AT 2000 HRS PDT. PILOTREPORTS INCIDENT OCCURRED APPROXIMATELY 26 MINUTES INTO THE FLIGHT. CABIN ALTIMETER WAS SET AT 5,000 FT WHILE PASSING THROUGH 10,000 FT ALTITUDE. CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT WAS REGAINED AT FL 140, AND A NORMAL APPROACH AND LANDING EXECUTED. NO INJURIES TO PILOT. PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE APPEARS TO VALIDATE PILOT REPORT OF THE INCIDENT. ADDITIONAL DAMAGE WAS NOTED TO THE GLARESHILED AT THE BASE OF THE CO-PILOT SIDE OF THE WINDSHIELD.

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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