- Date
- January 25, 1992, 05:50 local (11:50 UTC)
- Place
- Omaha, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N96722Cessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920125001039A
- Case key
- 15386
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions. Associated factors are the high and gusty winds.
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 pilot said while taxing out for departure, in a gusty surface wind condition, the acft flipped over as he taxied from behind the terminal building. The surface wind was about 25 knots and gusting.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96722
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18266824
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Adams Land & Cattle Co
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Destination
- BBW · Broken Bow, NE
- Airport
- OMA · Epply, runway 32, 8,500 × 150 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
- 58
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 10,653 total · 1,200 in this make and model · 9,742 as pilot in command · 97 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 320° at 25 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,200 ft overcast
- Observed at
- OMA, 1 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.