- Date
- March 14, 1985, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Atlanta, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76RFCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6765
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Loss of control - in flight
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt lost directional control during ldg when the acft encountered wind gusts and was blown off the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76RF
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18264735
- Airframe hours
- 2,035
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert J. Loewenthol
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 14, 1985
- Departed
- PDK
- Airport
- PDK · Dekalb-Peachtree, runway 34, 3,966 × 150 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PDK