- Date
- September 30, 2016, 18:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Rensselaer, IN
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2508QCessna 182
- Defining event
- Landing: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 18, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20160930019719A
- Case key
- 94141
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper touchdown point during landing, which resulted in the left wing's subsequent impact with a cornfield.
Findings · 3
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 private rated pilot conducted a local pleasure flight and returned to a private grass airfield. He reported that he had poles located at the end of the runway, to help establish the runways' s center line and that there was a field of standing corn on the left side of the runway. He added that during the landing he was slightly left of the runway centerline and should have executed a go-around. The airplane's left wingtip impacted the corn and the airplane continued left into the corn, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. Examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the fuselage and wings.
Factual narrative
The private rated pilot conducted a local pleasure flight and returned to a private grass airfield. He reported that he had poles located at the end of the runway, to help establish the runways' s center line and that there was a field of standing corn on the left side of the runway. He added that during the landing he was slightly left of the runway centerline and should have executed a go-around. The airplane's left wingtip impacted the corn and the airplane continued left into the corn, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. Examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the fuselage and wings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2508Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (K)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18257708
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 4,117.7
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470 SERIES, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Culp Farms Inc
- Registered owner
- Culp Farms Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 9, 2016
- Departed
- 4IN8 · Rensselaer, IN
- Destination
- 4IN8 · Rensselaer, IN
- Airport
- 4IN8 · Culp Farms Airport, runway 9/27, 3,660 × 100 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
- 82
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 2,904 total · 2,400 in this make and model · 2,904 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 0.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KRZL, 7 nm away
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 15, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.5 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.
Other investigations on N2508Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.