- Date
- August 22, 1982, 09:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Los Angeles, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6825PPiper PA-24-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 71484
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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
The flt departed santa monica at 0830 for a local flt. At 0926 the plt called from downtown Los Angeles for landing at santa monica. At 9028 the plt 3 mi east of a VFR reporting point with eng trouble & that he had to come down. The acft wing struck the roof of a house in a densely populated residential area coming to rest in the street on top of two cars. There was no fuel in the line to the carburetor. The fuel selector was on the right tank which was found dry. The ruptured left tank contained approximately 2 gals. Firemen estimated that approximately an additional 2 gals had flowed out. All fuel on board the acft was usable.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6825P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24-1958
- Airframe hours
- 1,962
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-A1D5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenneth Melvin Jackson
- Registered owner
- Kenneth Melvin Jackson
- Departed
- SMO · Santa Monica, CA
- Destination
- SMO · Santa Monica, CA
- Airport
- runway 21, 4,987 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 307 total · 212 in this make and model · 227 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SMO, 3 nm away
Other investigations on N6825P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.