- Date
- September 29, 1989, 10:27 local (17:27 UTC)
- Place
- Diamond Lake, OR
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N3581YCessna 182F
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890929037129A
- Case key
- 40939
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Improper inflight planning and decision by the pilot in command who continued VFR flight into IMC conditions while attempting to fly through a mountain pass. Contributing factors were the low ceiling and rain weather conditions and the mountainous, hilly terrain in the pass.
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 acft ELT was received but aerial search impossible because of low cig, vsby in area. Witnesses reported low cig, rain and fog in the area on the day of the accident. The wreckage was located 3 days later, after passage of frontal wx system, at 5200 ft MSL in a remote pass that is a frequently used VFR route through the cascade mountains.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3581Y
- Reported as
- Cessna 182F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18254481
- Airframe hours
- 2,428
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R3, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ronald P. House
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 28, 1989 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- 64S · Prospect, OR
- Destination
- 2S6 · Newberg, OR
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
- 58
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 20,774 total · 260 in the last 90 days · 93 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RBG, 48 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.