- Date
- March 1, 1986, 12:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Manassas, VA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9962HCessna 182R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11202
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.
Analysis
Witnesses observed black smoke trailing from the aircraft shortly after liftoff and continue until ground impact. The pilot indicated that he first noticed an engine roughness about 100-200 feet in the air and thought it was similar to an engine that was running to rich. He elected not to try and abort the takeoff but to try and perform a normal traffic pattern and come around and land again. Power continued to decrease with the result being that he was forced to attempt to land the aircraft in a nearby field, colliding with the only house located in the center of the field. Examination of the aircraft and the engine did not determine the cause of the reported loss of power.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9962H
- Reported as
- Cessna 182R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18268146
- Airframe hours
- 834
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Theodroe R. Groom
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 10, 1986 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- W10
- Destination
- W98 · Chesterfield, VA
- Airport
- W10 · Manassas Municipal, runway 34L, 3,700 × 100 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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 228 total · 145 in this make and model · 188 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAD, 7 nm away