- Date
- July 13, 1984, 07:45 local (12:45 UTC)
- Place
- Henryville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N6021BCessna 182A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840713032479A
- Case key
- 12412
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The aircraft's annual inspection was thirteen years overdue and the pilot had not logged any flight time inn almost one year. Twenty eight airworthiness directives had not been complied with. The engine quit shortly after take off, when the magneto coils heated up and arced thru large cracks in the plastic coating. This malfunction was the subject of one of the ad's. the aircraft collided with unmarked high tension powerlines and impacted the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6021B
- Reported as
- Cessna 182A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34021
- Airframe hours
- 1,937
- Engine
- Continental O-0470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Garry D. Patte
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 3, 1970 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- SER · Seymour, IN
- Destination
- JVY · Jeffersonville, IN
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 511 total · 1 in this make and model · 475 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LOU, 30 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.