- Date
- August 20, 1985, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Holly Grove, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N69814Cessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11190
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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.
Analysis
After takeoff, the acft lost pwr approximately 150 feet AGL. The plt added carburetor heat and turned the acft back towards gvm spring airport, gum spring, Virginia, but an emergency landing was executed in a short pasture, approximately 100 yards short of the rwy. Upon touchdown, the acft's nosewheel sunk in mud and the acft flipped over, coming to rest inverted. Approximately 10-12 inches of rain had fallen in gum spring, Virginia during the two days priorto the accident. Investigation revealed an approximate 75 peercent water content in the two cups of fuel drained after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69814
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18263325
- Airframe hours
- 2,455
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R2, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert C. Parrish
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 4, 1984 · 56 hours before
- Airport
- South Anna (Private), runway 4, 2,000 × 60 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
- 49
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,109 total · 103 in this make and model · 1,813 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RIC, 32 nm away