- Date
- May 17, 1987, 14:43 local (21:43 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Monica, CA
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N42814Cessna 182L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870517013539A
- Case key
- 25401
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft lost power during initial climb and crashed on a residential street during an attempted forced landing. The throttle arm was found separated from the throttle shaft. The arm had been replaced 19 hours prior to the accident. Examination of the carburetor revealed that the shaft bushing was worn and loose and that the jaws of the new arm were closed completely but producing no clamping action. Subsequent tests of the arm and shaft revealed that the arm would slip easily on and off the shaft. Tests also established that the recommended method of safety wiring the arm to the shaft did not retain the arm on the shaft. The maintenance facility did not perform the final inspection in accordance with their own FAA approved repair station manual. The maintenance facility had recommended a major carburetor overhaul to the plt/owner but he refused because of the quoted price.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42814
- Reported as
- Cessna 182L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18259201
- Airframe hours
- 2,645
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tom A. Robinson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 18, 1986 · 54 hours before
- Departed
- SMD
- Airport
- SMO · Santa Monica, 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 504 total · 408 in this make and model · 471 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SMO, 1 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.