- Date
- August 16, 1989, 16:05 local (20:05 UTC)
- Place
- Bethel, OH
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N3542FCessna 182J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 10, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890816030129A
- Case key
- 7915
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain sufficient airspeed during the initial climb after takeoff, which resulted in an inadvertent stall. The pilot's lack of total experience was considered to be a related factor.
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.
Analysis
The acft crashed in a soybean field, shortly after the plt took off from his 1600 ft turf strip. He rprtd the takeoff was normal until the plane reached an alt of 200 to 300 ft AGL. He could not remember exactly what had occurred after that, though he did recall lowering the nose & hearing a buzzer sound at one point. No preimpact mechanical malfunction or failure was found. The prop blades were twisted or bent with chordwise scratches on both blades. The eng was placed in a test cell, where it was started & run to idle RPM. It was not operated above idle RPM, due to a bent crankshaft flange. (The crankshaft flange was bent drg impact.)
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3542F
- Reported as
- Cessna 182J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18257542
- Airframe hours
- 1,850
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kelch, Wendell C., doing business as Kelch Repair Service
- Registered owner
- Kelch, Wendell C
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 3, 1989 · 24 hours before
- Airport
- NONE, runway 27, 1,600 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 105 total · 75 in this make and model · 68 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LUK, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.