- Date
- August 10, 1992, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Plymouth, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2387GCessna 182BTW
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920810031149A
- Case key
- 15515
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Probable cause
An inadvertent ground loop.
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
Pilot made approach to runway 18. Pilot reported wind was from the west at 15 to 20 knots. Reporting station eight miles from airport recorded wind 270 at 17 knots. Pilot stated that airplane started to drift to left during landing rollout, and he applied right rudder to correct. Airplane did a ground loop to the right, and collapsed the left main landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2387G
- Reported as
- Cessna 182BTW
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51687
- Airframe hours
- 3,224
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pitsch Air Service
- Registered owner
- Pitsch Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 6, 1991 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- GRR · Grand Rapids, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 1D2 · Mettetal-Canton, runway 18, 2,556 × 45 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
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,109 total · 8 in this make and model · 1,946 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 250° at 17 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- YIP, 8 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.
Other investigations on N2387G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.