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LAX82FA134 · Cessna 182M

10 Apr 1982 · Lake Hughes, CA, United States

Cessna 182M · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water en route

From Meadows Field (BFL) to Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport (HHR)

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Event

NTSB case
LAX82FA134
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
3 · 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 182M

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
N70939
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Meadows Field (BFL), Bakersfield, CATo Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport (HHR), Hawthorne, 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 collision with terrain/water
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 › Flight into known adverse weather, disregarded
  • Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, poor
  • Pilot in command › Weather evaluation, improper
  • Terrain condition › Mountainous/hilly
  • Weather condition › Obscuration

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

THE PILOT REQUESTED THE EN ROUTE WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 1545, 1625, 1732 AND 2150 PST FROM THE BAKERSFIELD FSS. THE PILOT WAS INFORMED, ON EACH OCCASION, THAT VFR FLIGHT WAS NOT RECOMMENDED; HOWEVER, AT 2213 THE PILOT DEPARTED BAKERSFIELD. NO FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED AND THERE WERE NO RADIO COMMUNICAITONS WITH THE AIRCRAFT AFTER DEPARTURE. THE AIRCRAFT WRECKAGE WAS LOCATED 48 MILES FROM THE DEPARTURE POINT AT THE 4500 FOOT LEVEL OF A RIDGELINE. INVESTIGATIONREVEALED THE WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE PILOT'S ROUTE OF FLIGHT WAS FOR MOUNTAIN TERRAIN OBSCURATION AND THUNDERSTORMS.

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Sources

NTSB record LAX82FA134
Event ID
20020917X02281
Case number
LAX82FA134
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 1982-04-11.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: af336d4a65299f5d4f5fffbcff937309069b3c9530e54eb9db180b3348facb06; retrieved 2026-09-21T08:32:38.078Z.