- Date
- December 4, 2005, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lansing, KS
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Emergency descent
- Aircraft
- N123FCessna 182E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 28, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20051204028909A
- Case key
- 62915
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Probable cause
the pilot's inability to maintain aircraft control during the forced landing which resulted in a collision with terrain. A contributing factor was the pilot becoming ill during cruise flight.
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 in cruise flight, the pilot became ill and decided he could not safely continue to fly the airplane to the destination airport. The pilot then initiated a forced landing to a field a few miles from the airport. During the forced landing, the airplane impacted a rising embankment and came to rest upright in the field. Examination of the airplane by the inspector revealed the nose gear was separated and the firewall was buckled.
Factual narrative
On December 4, 2005, at 1500 central standard time, a Cessna 182E single-engine airplane, N123F, was substantially damaged during a forced landing after the pilot in command became ill during cruise flight near Lansing, Kansas. The private pilot and two passengers sustained minor injuries. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a flight plan was not filed for the Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The local flight departed Highcrest Air Park (SN83), Lansing, Kansas, at an unknown time.
According to a Federal Aviation Administration inspector who responded to the accident site, the pilot became ill while in cruise flight and decided he could not safely continue to fly the airplane to SN83. The pilot then initiated a forced landing to a field a few miles from SN83. During the forced landing, the airplane impacted a rising embankment and came to rest upright in the field. Examination of the airplane by the inspector revealed the nose gear was separated and the firewall was buckled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N123F
- Reported as
- Cessna 182E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18253842
- Engine
- Continental O-470, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Terry J. Cox
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SN83 · Lansing, KS
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
- 66
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 560 total · 80 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.