- Date
- September 20, 1985, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mammoth Lakes, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7208NCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850920065519A
- Case key
- 24840
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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 plt stated that the afct's throttle stuck in the full power position. He shut the engine down using the mixture control, but misjudged his altitude, stalled the aircraft & crashed short of the runway. The condition of the wreckage precluded determination of the pre-accident condition of the throttle assembly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7208N
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18263000
- Airframe hours
- 1,570
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Philip A. Zimmerman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 6, 1985 · 105 hours before
- Departed
- SDM · San Diego, CA
- Destination
- MMH
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MMH · Mammoth Lakes
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 738 total · 738 in this make and model · 721 as pilot in command · 54 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MMH
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.