- Date
- August 20, 2017, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Booneville, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N182DWCessna 182
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 15, 2018
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20170820013519A
- Case key
- 95876
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing roll, which resulted in a runway excursion.
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 private pilot was landing the airplane after a cross-country flight with a passenger onboard. The pilot reported that, during the landing roll, the left brake locked and the airplane veered to the left, departing the side of the runway into a ravine. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed no mechanical anomalies with the braking system that would have precluded normal operation, and the locked brake condition could not be duplicated; therefore, the reason for the loss of directional control could not be determined.
Factual narrative
On August 20, 2017, about 1300 central daylight time, a Cessna 182R airplane, N182DW, was substantially damaged when it departed the runway while landing at the Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport (KVER), Booneville, Missouri. The private pilot and passenger were not injured. The personal flight was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight plan had been filed for the flight. The cross-country flight departed Clinton Regional Airport (KCLK) Clinton, Oklahoma, about 1045 and was en route to KVER. According to the pilot, while landing on runway 18 (4,000 ft by 75 ft, asphalt) the left brake locked and the airplane veered off of the runway and into a ravine. The horizontal stabilizer and fuselage were substantially damaged. According to the FAA inspector who responded to the accident, there were rubber witness marks, from both the left and the right tire, in a left turning arc that continued to the edge of the runway. The left tire did not have any flat spots consistent with the tire being locked. The master cylinder was full of hydraulic fluid and there was no evidence of a fluid leak. The brake caliper, brake pads, and left brake disc were all in good condition. The inspector was unable to duplicate the locked brake condition. An examination of the airframe and flight controls revealed no anomalies that would have resulted in a loss of directional control during a landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N182DW
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (R)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18200982
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 3,021.9
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-J3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 16, 2017
- Departed
- KCLK · Clinton, OK
- Destination
- KVER · Boonville, MO
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- KVER · Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport, runway 18, 4,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 78
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 28, 2017
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 3,898 total · 31 in this make and model · 3,898 as pilot in command · 9.6 in the last 90 days · 8.3 in the last 30 days · 2.2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 12 knots, gusting 16
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KVER
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 29, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 893 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.