- Date
- March 25, 1982, 17:05 local (Mar 26, 1982, 00:05 UTC)
- Place
- Laurel, MT
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N575CFCessna T182RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 25, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 71384
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Overrun
Lowering of flaps - inadequateCause
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Gear collapsed
Landing gear - overloadFactor
Analysis
The aircraft landed long on a down slope runway and ran off the end collapsing the landing gear. The pilot stated that he should have used full flaps instead of the 20 degrees he used.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N575CF
- Reported as
- Cessna T182RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18201215
- Airframe hours
- 645
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Blue Sky Transportation Co. In
- Registered owner
- Blue Sky Transportation Co. In
- Departed
- Billings, MT
- Destination
- Laurel, MT
- Airport
- 6S8 · Laurel, runway 13, 2,850 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 22
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,341 total · 28 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Temperature
- 104 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg