- Date
- September 12, 1992, 14:12 local (21:12 UTC)
- Place
- Fillmore, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2212WCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920912036459A
- Case key
- 27760
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Probable cause
The first pilot's poor inflight decision to fly into a box canyon. Contributing to this accident was the box canyon and the downdraft.
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
Two private pilots were conducting a local personal flight over mountainous terrain. The first pilot elected to fly into a canyon. While flying upslope in the canyon the pilot reported encountering a downdraft. Unable to execute a 180 turn the pilot elected to crash in a nose up, slow airspeed, attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2212W
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1727516
- Airframe hours
- 3,908
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- King Aviation Center, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Chrysiliou, Chrysilios
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 10, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- VNY · Van Nuys, 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 95 total · 95 in this make and model · 95 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.