- Date
- June 28, 1991, 11:25 local (18:25 UTC)
- Place
- Fillmore, CA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N759FYCessna 182Q
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910628024909A
- Case key
- 27010
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Probable cause
Poor judgement by the pilot to continue VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions. Contributing to the accident was IFR conditions that included low ceilings and low visibility and insufficient instrument training of the pilot to deal with the IFR 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
The certificated private pilot and a passenger were on a personal cross counry flight and were reported overdue. Search personnel located the accident the following day, after receiving an ELT signal. The airplane was found on the east face of a 4000 foot mountain at an eelevation of 3500 feet. The non-instrument rated pilot obtained a weather briefing prior to the flight in which flight precautions were forecasted and VFR flight was not recommended. The weather conditions along the route of flight were reported to be mountain obscuration, moderate turbulence, broken ceilings of 1500 to 2000 feet with various layers of clouds. Coastal conditions included limited visibilities of 3 to 5 miles in fog and haze and some scattered light rain showers. When the pilot opened the VFR flight plan, the information that VFR flight was not recommended was again stressed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N759FY
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18265970
- Airframe hours
- 2,675
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Francisco Garcia
- Registered owner
- Francisco Garcia
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 14, 1990 · 55 hours before
- Departed
- FUL · Fullerton, CA
- Destination
- MRY · Monterey, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 190 total · 49 in this make and model · 142 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OXR, 18 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.