- Date
- December 9, 1990, 14:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Lansing, IL
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N756ZQCessna 182RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901209053399A
- Case key
- 14968
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Probable cause
Excessive lowering of flaps resulted in aircraft control not being maintained by the pilot..inadequate airspeed resulted in a stall/mush and subsequent collision with the terrain. Factors related to the accident were: a gusty crosswind and a delayed go-around 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
While attempting to land, with full flaps, in a gusty crosswind, directional control was lost when the acft touched down on the nose wheel, then became airborne. The aircraft veered to the right, and a go-around was attempted, but lack of flying speed resulted in a collision with the terrain. The flight operations handbook recommends minimum flaps during cross-wind landings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N756ZQ
- Reported as
- Cessna 182RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18201205
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bern, James A.
- Departed
- RFD · Rockford, IL
- Destination
- 3HA
- Airport
- 3HA · Lansing, runway 27, 3,655 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 28
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 660 total · 195 in this make and model · 608 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 14 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 20,000,000 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- MDW, 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.