- Date
- January 28, 1991, 07:46 local (13:46 UTC)
- Place
- Indianapolis, IN
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6610SCessna R182
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910128001199A
- Case key
- 15001
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Probable cause
Visual outlook was not possible and aircraft directional control was not maintained by the pilot. Factors related to the accident were dense fog, early dawn light conditions, poor judgement and over confidence in personal ability by the pilot and trees in the departure path of the aircraft.
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 collided with a tree then the terrain shortly after takeoff on an uncontrolled airport. Meteorological conditions were reported as zero/zero at the time of the accident. The pilot said that due to his injuries, he could not remember a pre-flight check of weather or filing and IFR flight plan.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6610S
- Reported as
- Cessna R182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18201694
- Airframe hours
- 2,546
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-L3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenneth White
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000 · 81 hours before
- Destination
- MIE · Muncie, IN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 4I8 · Metropolitan, runway 32, 3,000 × 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Invalid Medical for flight
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,525 total · 1,333 in this make and model · 131 in the last 90 days · 41 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 320° at 3 knots
- Temperature
- 9 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Observed at
- IND, 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.