- Date
- February 21, 1987, 11:04 local (16:04 UTC)
- Place
- Martinsburg, WV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N756KZCessna R-182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11281
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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Analysis
The plt stated that he forgot to make a final before lndg check because he was concentrating on traffic and the short lndg he had been requested to make. Twr personnel violated USAF procedures when they requested that the acft hold short of the east-west rwy on lndg and when they did not remind the plt to check wheels down prior to lndg.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N756KZ
- Reported as
- Cessna R-182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R-182-01100
- Airframe hours
- 1,800
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Armel Aviation, Ltd.
- Registered owner
- Eugene M. Propper
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 9, 1986 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- IAD · Chantilly, VA
- Airport
- MRB · Eastern West Va Regional, runway 35, 5,001 × 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,162 total · 23 in this make and model · 831 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRB