LAX84FA189 · Cessna 182P
Cessna 182P · Accident: in flight encounter with weather en route
From Q68 · Groveland, CA to Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County (RHV)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX84FA189
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
Cessna 182P
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N91227
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Q68 · Groveland, CATo Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County (RHV), San Jose, CA
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- In flight encounter with weather
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
- Pilot in command › Proper altitude, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
WHILE ON A NIGHT X-COUNTRY FLT, THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND NEAR THE TOP OF HILLY TERRAIN AT AN ELEVATION OF ABOUT 1840 FT. THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT WAS NOT KNOWN, BUT THE ACFT HAD DEPARTED GROVELAND, CA AT SOMETIME BETWEEN 1900 & 1930 PST. WITNESSES IN THE AREA AT THE PRESUMED TIME OF THE ACCIDENT STATED THAT A SUDDEN RAIN SQUALL HAD MOVED THRU THE LIVERMORE, CA VICINITY AT ABOUT 1900 PST. AN EXAM OF THE WRECKAGE REVEALED NO INDICATION OF ANY PREIMPACT MECHANICAL FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION. APRX 5 MI NORTHWEST AT LIVERMORE, CA, THE 1945 PST WX WAS, IN PART: 3000 FT SCATTERED, 7000 FT BROKEN. THE ELEVATION AT LIVERMORE IS 397 FT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX84FA189
- Event ID
- 20001214X38802
- Case number
- LAX84FA189
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 10742fbd5079f73f39759bbcb09584c370bdc748506ce941e12d10f90478c7bd; retrieved 2026-09-21T05:39:04.809Z.