Cessna 182H N2042X

8 July 1970 · Shaver Lake, California, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 8 July 1970 at about 18:50 local time, a Cessna 182H registered N2042X was involved in an accident during in flight near Shaver Lake, California, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 8 July 1970 at 18:50
Classification: Accident
Location: Shaver Lake, California, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 182H
Registration: N2042X
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Clovis, Calif → S
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2562

People

1 person died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	1	0	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

HIT TOP OF 170 FT TREE NEAR RESORT AREA. CRASHEDIN LAKE. BLOOD SAMPLE UNSAT FOR VALID TEST.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-2562, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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