- Date
- May 27, 1990, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Rich Hill, MO
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N71818Cessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900527026389A
- Case key
- 14710
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Probable cause
Inadequate landing flare by the pilot.
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 pvt pilot said that while attempting to land on a soft, muddy, private sod strip, in a gusting crosswind, the acft hit nose first. The nose gear sheered off, and the acft slid on its nose rocking from wing to wing until it stopped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N71818
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18259769
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Redenbaugh, Thomas
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- GVW · Kansas City, MO
- Airport
- NONE · Rich Hill, runway 36, 2,800 × 30 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 907 total · 830 in this make and model · 907 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 8 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.