- Date
- January 23, 1983
- Place
- Castaic, CA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N25061Cessna 152
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23879
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
About 3 hrs after he took off, the plt called burbank tower & advised he was lost & was at 4000 ft, heading southbound. Tower personnel advised him to contact burbank apch control on 121.5, but received no acknowledgement. A few minutes later, a helicopter plt attempted to contact the lost plt, but got no response. Later, the acft was found where it crashed on the side of a mountain at an elevation of about 3500 ft. about 28 mi west-northwest at burbank, the 0849 PST wx was, in part: 1500 scattered, 4000 ft overcast, wind 140 deg at 4 KTS. The elevation at burbank is 775 ft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25061
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280523
- Airframe hours
- 1,844
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard E Carr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 30, 1982 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- BUR · Burbank Airport, CA
- Airport
- BUR · Burbank
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
- 24
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 150 total · 23 in this make and model · 94 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
- Wind
- 140° at 4 knots
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BUR, 28 nm away