- Date
- March 29, 2010, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lansing, IA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3503HCessna 182T
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 1, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-DSM-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20100329030419A
- Case key
- 75599
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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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain a proper touchdown point, resulting in an overrun and intentional ground loop.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot landed long on his private farm airstrip. He intentionally ground-looped the airplane in order to avoid trees at the end of the airstrip. The airplane nosed over during the ground loop, resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage, wings, and firewall.
Factual narrative
The pilot landed long on his private farm airstrip. He intentionally ground looped the airplane in order to avoid trees at the end of the airstrip. The airplane nosed over during the ground loop resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage, wings, and firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3503H
- Reported as
- Cessna 182T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18281006
- Airframe hours
- 606.5
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-AB15A, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ransom Woodbury Trustee
- Registered owner
- Ransom Woodbury Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 18, 2010 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- IOW · Iowa City, IA
- Destination
- PVT · Lansing, IA
- Airport
- PVT · Pvt, runway 22, 1,100 × 70 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
- 71
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 21, 2008
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 890 total · 600 in this make and model · 850 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 22, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.1 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.