# Incident 20100817045759I: Cessna 172N, Camp Pendleton, CA, August 17, 2010

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 17, 2010, 15:05 local time
- Place: Camp Pendleton, CA
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Descent
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Aircraft: N6093J, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N6093J) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172N (registry code 2072434, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172n) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172N
- Reported engine: LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 120 total, 120 in this make and model, 20 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20100817045759I

## Narrative

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

PRIVATE PILOT ANDY DELORME DEPARTED SNA - JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT ON 8/17/2010 AT APPROXIMATELY 1430 LOCAL. THE PURPOSE WAS A LOCAL PLEASURE FLIGHT SOUTH TO OCEANSIDE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.DELORME ASKED FOR AND RECIEVED FLIGHT FOLLOWING FROM ATC FOR THE QUICK FLIGHT, AND USED TRANSPONDER CODE 0247.DELORME SAID AS HE CROSSED THE OCN-VOR HE LOOKED EAST AND SAW A (THE INTENDED) RUNWAY. HE FLEW DIRECTLY TO AND ENTERED THE RIGHT DOWNWIND OF RUNWAY 21 OF CAMP PENDLETON....NOT OCEANSIDE MUNI.DELORME, REALIZING AS HE GOT CLOSER TO THE RUNWAY ENVIRONMENT, REALIZED HE WAS NOT AT OKB, CORRECTED HIS NAVIGATION AS HE FLEW OVER THE RUNWAY 21 NUMBERS ON THE BASE LEG. DELORME SAID AT THAT POINT, HE SAW MILITARY HELICOPTERS OPERATING, AND KNEW HE HAD MADE A MISTAKE.TO THE SOUTH HE SAW ANOTHER RUNWAY, OKB RUNWAY 24, AND FLEW DIRECTLY THERE AND LANDED. ON DEPARTURE FROM OKB, DELORME AGAIN REQUESTED FLIGHT FOLLOWING FROM ATC. ATC ADVISED HIM THAT CAMP PENDLETON'S CONTROLLERS WANTED TO TALK TO HIM AND GAVE HIM A PHONE NUMBER TO CALL, WHICH HE DID AFTER HE RETURNED HOME.

## Other reports on N6093J (2)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19941117045729I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19941117045729I), Nov 17, 1994: Cessna 172N (N6093J), Santa Ana, CA, Minor damage. During taxi on ramp taxied behind a taxiing MD80. Blown up on wing tip and nose by jet blast. Non control area.
- [Incident 19840916055849I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19840916055849I), Sep 16, 1984: Cessna 172N (N6093J), San Bernadino, CA. Engine knocking, oil pressure zero, shut down engine and landed. No oil on dipstick. Had added 2 qts before flight.

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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