# Accident 20010123025459A: Cessna R182, Douglas, AZ, January 23, 2001

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 23, 2001, 12:58 local time
- Place: Douglas, AZ
- Airport: Cochise College Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Go Round (Aborted VFR)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: HR8S
- Location: 31.3742° N, 109.6939° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=31.3742&lon=-109.6939&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5487T (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA R182
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,190 total, 765 in this make and model, 31 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB LAX01LA080](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX01LA080) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010123025459A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT PERFORMED A GO-AROUND. STUDENT RETRACTED GEAR EARLY, AIRCRAFT STALLED AND SETTLED TO RUNWAY. (.4) ON JANUARY 23, 2001, AT 1258 MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, A CESSNA 182RG, N5487T, COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND DURING A GO-AROUND AT DOUGLAS, ARIZONA. THE AIRPLANE SUSTAINED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. THE CERTIFICATED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES; HIS DUAL STUDENT WAS NOT INJURED. THE AIRPLANE WAS BEING OPERATED AS A TRAINING FLIGHT BY COCHISE COLLEGE UNDER 14 CFR PART 91 WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. THE LOCAL FLIGHT ORIGINATED AT 1220. VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS PREVAILED AT THE TIME AND NO FLIGHT PLAN HAD BEEN FILED. ACCORDING TO THE OPERATOR, JUST BEFORE TOUCHDOWN FOR A TOUCH-AND-GO LANDING, THE STUDENT PILOT BEGAN THE LANDING FLARE AND THE AIRPLANE BALLOONED. THE INSTRUCTOR DIRECTED THAT THE STUDENT GO AROUND AND CALLED FOR FULL POWER. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE STALL WARNING HORN. THE INSTRUCTOR PUSHED FORWARD ON THE YOKE WHILE STATING HE HAD CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE. THE CONTROLS FELT HEAVY AND THE INSTRUCTOR NOTED THAT THE STUDENT WAS STILL ON THE FLIGHT CONTROLS PULLING THE YOKE AFT. THE INSTRUCTOR WAS UNABLE TO SEE THE PO                            SITION OF THE LANDING GEAR. A RIGHT ROLL AND YAW WAS COUNTERED WITH THE FLIGHT CONTROLS AND THE FLAPS WERE EXTENDED TO 20 DEGREES, FOLLOWED BY A LEFT ROLL AND YAW. THE AIRPLANE STOPPED SETTLING AND WAS ROLLED LEVEL. IT ROLLED RIGHT AGAIN AND THE RIGHT WING STRUCK THE GROUND FOLLOWED BY THE PROPELLER. IT LANDED ON ITS BELLY AND SLID TO A STOP. AFTER THE AIRPLANE CAME TO A REST THE LANDING GEAR WAS FOUND IN THE RETRACTED POSITION. THE OPERATOR STATED THAT IT APPEARED THE STUDENT RAISED THE LANDING GEAR AT THE START OF THE GO-AROUND, CONTRARY TO SCHOOL POLICY.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB LAX01LA080](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX01LA080), Jan 23, 2001: Cessna 182RG (N5487T), Douglas, AZ, substantial damage. Probable cause: The student's failure to maintain control of the airplane during the go-around and his premature retraction of the landing gear. A factor was the flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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