- Date
- September 4, 1985, 10:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Julian, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N421GSPiper PA-28-161
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850904043269A
- Case key
- 24826
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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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - low ceilingFactor
Vfr flight into imc - disregardedCause
Light condition - night
Weather evaluation - not understoodFactor
Judgment - poorCause
Airspeed(vs) - not maintainedFactor
Stall - inadvertentCause
Loss of control - in flight
Terrain condition - high terrainFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The acft collided with rising terrain on a local flt. The pax indicated that the plt was flying below the clouds and came too close to the mtn to avoid the collision.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N421GS
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-161
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7816245
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D3G, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Alladin Aviation
- Registered owner
- John W. Bradford, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SEE · El Cajon, CA
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 7 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 100 ft overcast
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SEE, 23 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.