- Date
- May 21, 1997, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kansas City, MO
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N736YZCessna 182RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1998
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19970521039829A
- Case key
- 10593
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Probable cause
the pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing. A factor relating to the accident was the excessive airspeed.
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 flew to Olathe, Kansas with two passengers and returned. While landing at Kansas City Downtown Airport, the airplane landed hard. The pilot's attorney stated that the 'Pilot came in . . . hot, fast, and high, and had a hard landing.' The airplane received substantial damage, which included deformation of the fuselage (right side) and deformation of the right main gear.
Factual narrative
On May 21, 1997, at 1730 central daylight time, a Cessna 182RG, N736YZ, operated by Phoenix Aviation, Kansas City, Missouri, sustained substantial damage while landing at Downtown Airport, Kansas City, Missouri. The commercial pilot reported no injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local 14 Part 91 flight. No flight plan was on file.
In the FAA's Accident Investigation Record, it states that the pilot flew from Kansas City, Missouri, to Olathe, Kansas, with two passengers. The pilot then returned to Kansas City and during the hard landing caused "...substantial damage to the aircraft."
Attempts to get a statement from the pilot were unsuccessful. The pilot declined questioning. In speaking with the pilot's attorney, he stated that the "Pilot came in... ... hot, fast, and high, and had a hard landing." A second copy of the 6120.1/2 was faxed to the attorney's office for the pilot for completion of blocks left blank. No reply was ever received. The letter is an attachment to this file.
Damage to the aircraft consisted of deformation of the right side fuselage and right main gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N736YZ
- Reported as
- Cessna 182RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18200796
- Airframe hours
- 2,636
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C5, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Peter Webster
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 30, 1996 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- OJC · Olathe, KS
- Destination
- MKC
- Airport
- MKC · Kansas City Downtown
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
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.