- Date
- August 4, 1983, 20:44 local (Aug 5, 1983, 03:44 UTC)
- Place
- Weaverville, CA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N757TECessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830804041359A
- Case key
- 23811
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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 acft crash landed in mountainous terrain after the engine lost power. At 2040 PDT a mayday call was heard from the accident acft by the redding tower. The acft was advised to squawk code 7700 and to transmit on several other frequencies. No further readable transmissions from the acft were received by redding twr. At 2047 another acft advised redding that the accident acft initially rept loss of oil pressure, then a dead engine and that he was going down in thearea of trinity center. Later one of the operators of the flying club to which the accident acft belonged said the pilothad told him he ran out of fuel. No fuel was found in the acft at the accident site.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N757TE
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279985
- Airframe hours
- 2,764
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Enterprise Flying Club, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 1, 1982 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- BOK · Brookings, OR
- Destination
- RDD · Redding, CA
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 260 total · 58 in this make and model · 226 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 180° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RDDQ, 43 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.