- Date
- August 2, 1991, 13:26 local (20:26 UTC)
- Place
- Lovelock, NV
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1315SCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 9, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 27020
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain sufficient altitude for obstruction clearance, and his inadequate visual scan.
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 airplane was headed eastbound when it collided with the top static cable of a north-south power transmission line. The power line cables paralleled a mountain range on the eastern slope. The cables were down slope from the airplanes direction of travel and were not silhouetted against the sky when viewed from the west. The airplane struck the cable at about mid-span of the approximate 1/2 mile distance between the cable support towers. One of the towers was masked from the pilot's view by terrain from the direction of the airplane's flight path.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1315S
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 64879
- Airframe hours
- 1,460
- Engine
- Continental O-470-S, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Luftstorm Inc
- Registered owner
- Luftstorm Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 26, 1991 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- RNO · Reno, NV
- Destination
- BAM · Battle Mountain, NV
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
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 668 total · 412 in this make and model · 610 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LOL, 7 nm away