Accident · 1999-10-15
What the record says
- Event date
- 1999-10-15
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Cessna 152 (N5169B)
- Operating rule
- Part 91
- Operator
- Eric S. Rhoads Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- Eric S. Rhoads
Probable cause
the pilot's continued VFR flight into IMC. Contributing factors were the pilot's self induced pressure to depart the airport before the weather worsened and the airport closed, and the mountain obscurement and foggy weather conditions, and the night light conditions.
Source: NTSB case LAX00FA017Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.