# NTSB Accident LAX00FA099
> **Cessna 182L** · 2000-02-14 · COULTERVILLE, CA, USA · FATL
## Event
- **NTSB number:** LAX00FA099
- **Event ID:** 20001212X20504
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2000-02-14
- **Location:** COULTERVILLE, CA, USA
- **Coordinates:** 37.710727, -120.119483
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** FATL
- **Fatal:** 2
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 0
- **Total aboard:** 2
## Aircraft
- **Make:** Cessna
- **Model:** 182L
- **Registration:** N3324R
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** DEST
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** IMC
## Probable cause

The pilot's attempted flight into known adverse weather after receiving hazardous weather advisories, which resulted in inadvertent flight into instrument meteorological conditions while attempting to maintain VFR conditions on top.  The subsequent accumulation of structural icing required an emergency descent into conditions of low cloud ceilings and obscured mountains.

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