- Date
- April 11, 1989, 01:00 local (09:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chino, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N24807Cessna 152
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890411007599A
- Case key
- 26221
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to obtain an appropriate weather briefing in preparation for the cross country flight and his failure to maintain an altitude sufficient to clear the terrain along the indended route after entering reduced visibility conditions.
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
During a night cross country flight, the airplane collided with hilly terrain in a near wings level attitude. Weather in the area at the time of the accident was instrument meteorological conditions. There were no mechanical failures or malfunctions found during the engine inspection. The pilot does not remember the circumstances of the accident. The pilot did however report that he contacted the hawthorne flight service station by telephone at 2300 hours on 4/10/89 and the specialist reported that fullerton was VFR. A review of the tapes at hawthorne fss did not reveal any calls made by the pilot of N24807.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24807
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280390
- Airframe hours
- 4,576
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Liberty Aviation Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 22, 1989 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- RAL · Riverside, CA
- Destination
- FUL · Fullerton, 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
- 23
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 150 total · 7 in this make and model · 101 as pilot in command · 105 in the last 90 days · 47 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 230° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft unknown
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ONT, 13 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.