- Date
- May 28, 2026, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Dickinson, ND
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2056XCessna 182
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260528005849A
- Case key
- 203098
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control during landing in gusting wind conditions which resulted in a hard landing.
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 pilot reported that during landing the airplane ballooned and she executed a go-around. Before the airplane accelerated for the go-around it struck the ground hard and then became airborne again. The pilot said that during the second landing attempt a wind gust picked the airplane up and it hit the runway hard and began to porpoise. She believed that the airplane hit hard twice before she was able to get the airplane stopped. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The airplane received substantial damage to the forward fuselage. The recorded wind at the accident airport were reported as 23 kts, gusting to 32 kts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2056X
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (H)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18256156
- Built
- 1965
- Airframe hours
- 4,702
- Engine
- Continental O-470R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 4, 2025 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- GTF · Great Falls, MT
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- DIK · Dickinson/Theodore Roosevelt Rgnl, runway 14/32, 7,301 × 150 ft, concrete
- 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
- 56
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 5, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 949 total · 323 in this make and model · 805 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 23 knots, gusting 32
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- KDIK
- METAR
- METAR KDIK 281656Z AUTO 17023G32KT 10SM CLR 28/10 A3001 RMK AO2 PK WND 17032/1654 SLP142 T02830100
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 11, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.2 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 N2056X · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.