- Date
- October 4, 1989, 16:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sodus, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7369HCessna T182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891004038929A
- Case key
- 14571
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain a proper angle of climb, resulting in a stall.
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)
Analysis
The aircraft took off from a private sod strip, climbed 25 feet AGL, stalled, and descended uncontrolled into a fruit tree at the edge of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7369H
- Reported as
- Cessna T182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18267911
- Airframe hours
- 1,156
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-L3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- J.V.P. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 6, 1989 · 70 hours before
- Destination
- PWK · Wheeling, IL
- Airport
- Fairlawn Farms
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 72
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,130 total · 200 in this make and model · 1,875 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SBN, 20 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.