- Date
- October 2, 1988, 17:15 local (Oct 3, 1988, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Mt. Baldy, CA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N8065RBeech A24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881002043549A
- Case key
- 26179
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Probable cause
Pilot's improper in-flight decision and altitude.
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 had previously flown in the area of hills & valleys which ranged in altitude from 2200 to over 8000 feet MSL. Some of the valley floors rose rapidly, were surrounded by increasingly taller mountians and were shaped like a box canyon. During the pleasure flight in VFR conditions the plt & his pax entered a box-like canyon. The acft collided with 43 degree upsloping terrain of the 4,000-FT MSL canyon wall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8065R
- Reported as
- Beech A24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC-56
- Airframe hours
- 1,410
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Theodore & Catherine Cummings
- Registered owner
- Preston,Cummings & C. Cummings
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1988 · 55 hours before
- Departed
- CCB · Upland, 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 343 total · 85 in this make and model · 259 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ONT, 9 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.