Pilot Missing After Apparent Emergency Landing Near Hyampom, Plane Found Intact
Emergency personnel responded on Friday, June 13, to reports of a downed aircraft near Hyampom in Trinity County. According to scanner traffic, a person contacted 911 to report a plane crash. When responders arrived on scene, they found the aircraft intact, reporting no injuries from an apparent emergency landing—but the pilot was not at the scene.
Scanner traffic also indicated that the incident commander later updated the location to Corral Bottoms Road at the cross of Forest Service Road 3M40, a remote area north of Hyampom airport. The Hyampom Airport is unmanned, and details remain scarce due to the isolated nature of the incident.
Though the report of a downed plane was broadcast at 12:21 p.m., no flights are shown in the area on the Flight Radar map near that time. However, at approximately 10:55 a.m., flight tracking data showed a Cessna 182P aircraft with tail number N78720 going off radar just south of Hyampom.The plane had been picked up earlier in the day near Antioch, California, northwest of its registered home in Oakdale. The flight’s origin remains unknown, and it has not been confirmed whether this is the same aircraft involved in the emergency landing.
According to FAA records, the aircraft is a 1973 Cessna 182P.
Emergency personnel are continuing to investigate the incident and search for the pilot. Redheaded Blackbelt has attempted to obtain additional information but has been unable to reach the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office as of publication. Updates will be provided as more details become available.
Update: Cessna Damaged in Emergency Landing; Pilot Uninjured
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Well any one you can walk away from is a good one but usually you don’t walk too far, I guess they could still be in the bushes cleaning out their underwear
Must have landed near Hyampom downtown district.
Emergency landing due to a possible medical condition. Possibly stolen plane. Brought in a load of drugs. Someone picked the pilot up and left the scene. Whatever the reason I sure hope the pilot is ok.
We had a rumored dealer fly into Klamath on a monthly basis. He came from the Bay Area. The landing strip is a couple of miles upriver from 101 and in the fog belt.. His plane was a single-engine Cessna. He must have been a good pilot. That’s not a place for old men.
Coming in on a monthly basis makes me think he was involved in the drug trade.
The aircraft landed short of the airport on a river bar while on final for 32.
Hey Kym. The pilot is not missing. they were just not at the scene . They walked away.
Hopefully they checked in somewhere. The NTSB, among others will need to have a discussion with them.
ADS-B Exchange has it’s last flight data.
There’s a small farm airstrip at it’s point of origin along Grant Line Canal and South Tracy Boulevard, north of Tracy.
37°49’00″N 121°27’08″W
Looks like some oil spills on this cluttered property from the satellite view
According to the scanner traffic we heard they were unable to be located. Missing doesn’t mean they were harmed just that they weren’t were they were expected to be–in this case at the scene of the emergency landing. If they have been located, we’d love it if they would contact us.
They were located by responders. It was not prodcasted
You said they were located by responders. Was there more than one person in the plane with the pilot or did he meet up with someone.
One of those great local items…
At least the Pilot and Passengers(?) were not killed…
Hyampom is a small valley in the exact center of nowhere, somewhere near Hayfork, which is miles from Weaverville, a town of miniature size…
It astounds me that Hyampom is so remote, yet it has an Airstrip of some size…
I am glad that CalFire has a place to operate, and that the Airstrip came in handy.
Obviously there is more to this than we will ever know…
Most interesting thing about Hyampom:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/600-Lucy-Gulch-Rd_Hyampom_CA_96046_M93825-05051?from=srp-list-card
A forest waiting for the lightning…
Hey! Hyampom…
>”It astounds me that Hyampom is so remote, yet it has an Airstrip of some size…”
Well, it’s the only ‘flat spot’ around for miles…
So what’s the ‘rest of the story’? BTW the headline pic of a sizable airport-runway environment with those attention-grabbing large red letters is unnecessary and misleading.