- Date
- September 28, 2010, 18:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Downers Grove, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2439WCessna T182T
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 16, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20100928045939A
- Case key
- 77451
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper airspeed during landing, which resulted in a runway overrun, and his delayed decision to execute a go-around.
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 stated that although the airplane touched down a little bit faster than he anticipated during the initial landing roll, he thought he would be able to stop the airplane within the remaining runway. He later realized that he would not be able to stop but it was too late for him to abort the landing. The airplane departed the end of the runway and impacted a ditch. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical problems with the airplane and opined that he should have performed a go-around. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed the nose landing gear was collapsed, the firewall was bent, and the left wing was bent aft.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated that during landing on runway 09 (2,772 feet long by 150 feet wide, asphalt/turf), the airplane "touched down a little bit fast..." He felt he could stop the airplane within the remaining runway; however, "by the time I realized that I could not stop on time it was too late to pull up..." Subsequently, the airplane departed the end of the runway and impacted a ditch. The pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane prior to the accident and reported he should have performed a go-around. Examination of the airplane revealed the nose landing gear was collapsed, the firewall was bent, and the left wing was bent aft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2439W
- Reported as
- Cessna T182T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T18208529
- Airframe hours
- 480
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-AK1A, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 4, 2010
- Departed
- Danville, IL
- Destination
- LL22 · Downers Grove, IL
- Airport
- LL22 · Brookeridge Air Park, runway 09, 2,772 × 150 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
- 56
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 16, 2005
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 670 total · 560 in this make and model · 502 as pilot in command · 54 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 1° at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 2, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 484 KB 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.