LAX83LA412 · Cessna 182A
Cessna 182A · Accident: loss of engine power en route
From Q38 · South Dos Palos, CA to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX83LA412
- 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
- 0 · 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 182A
- 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
- N6055B
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Q38 · South Dos Palos, CATo not recorded
- 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 · descent
- 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
- Loss of engine power
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
WHILE DESCENDING TOWARD THE ARPT, AFTER 4 PARACHUTE JUMPERS HAD EGRESSED, THE ENG LOSS ALL POWER. THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT ALT TO GLIDE TO THE ARPT, SO THE PLT ELECTED TO LAND IN AN AREA WITH RICE PADDIES. AS THE ACFT TOUCHED DOWN, IT ENCOUNTERED A DIKE & NOSED OVER, AN EXAM REVEALED THAT SOME FUEL WAS REMAINING IN THE FUEL TANKS. ABOUT 1 PINT OF FUEL WAS DRAINED FROM THE FIRE WALL FUEL STRAINER. NO WATER WAS FOUND IN THE FUEL SYS. APRX 25 MI SOUTH AT MERCED, CA, THE TEMP & DEW POINT WERE 87 & 50 DEG, RESPECTIVE. ACCORDING TO ICG PROBABILITY CHARTS, CARB ICE WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE AT GLIDE POWER; HOWEVER, ICING WAS NOT VERIFIED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX83LA412
- Event ID
- 20001214X44231
- Case number
- LAX83LA412
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1983-08-29.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 968c9dd77a89e83d86d93b69e4770e5fc6b054b6ecf6c62e1c88e72996a30b42; retrieved 2026-09-22T02:31:06.284Z.