CEN20WA011

NTSB accident investigation · Cessna 172 · San Salvador, El Salvador · October 19, 2019

Accident · FatalForeign investigation
Date
October 19, 2019, 15:45 local (15:45 UTC)
Place
San Salvador, El Salvador
Injuries
2 fatal, 2 serious
Damage
Destroyed
Phase of flight
Enroute
Aircraft
N7381GCessna 172
Defining event
Enroute-cruise: Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)
NTSB office
Central Region
Lead agency
Other
Case key
100474

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Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.

Aircraft

Registration
N7381G
Reported as
Cessna 172 (K)
Category
Airplane
Serial number
17259081
Built
1970
Damage
Destroyed
Fire
Unknown
Flight
Non-U.S., non-commercial
Registered owner
Groulx Robert Joseph
Airworthiness certificate
Unknown
Equipment
Unknown

Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.