- Date
- September 21, 1982, 08:21 local (14:21 UTC)
- Place
- Salina, UT
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N21322Cessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820921048449A
- Case key
- 72464
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
One of the survivors stated they were flying across the face of a mountain & started a left turn up the mountain. As they made the turn they realized they were too low. When they started their turn to fly over the hill they were expecting the terrain to be level on the other side but instead there was another hill. They were flying about 300-400 ft AGL before they started their turn into rising terrain. The wreckage was located on the mountainside at the 9,100 ft level.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21322
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18261561
- Airframe hours
- 2,127
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 265 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Heinz Masonny
- Registered owner
- Heinz Masonny
- Departed
- Provo, UT
- Destination
- Provo, UT
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 5,324 total · 40 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.