- Date
- January 3, 1993, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Roanoke Rapids, NC
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8024TCessna 182A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930103000059A
- Case key
- 8719
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Probable cause
The pilot-at-control's failure to use carburetor heat resulting in a loss of engine power due to carburetor ice. A factor which contributed to the accident was weather conducive to carburetor ice.
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 right seat CFI had just completed providing an instrument flight proficiency check to the left seat CFI. The right seat CFI took the controls and the flight proceeded to the airport for a touch-and-go. After lift-off, at 30-40 ft AGL, the engine quit. As the right seat CFI was reaching to change the fuel selector, the left seat CFI rolled the airplane 30-45 deg to land on a grass runway. The airplane subsequently collided with the ground. According to the right seat CFI, the carburetor heat may have been off.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8024T
- Reported as
- Cessna 182A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34239
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Long Cotton Whse, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Long Cotton Whse, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 30, 1991 · 117 hours before
- Departed
- NONE · Gaston, NC
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- RZZ · Halifax County, runway 5, 4,006 × 75 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 560 total · 5 in this make and model · 434 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RWI, 30 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.