- Date
- May 31, 1983, 11:24 local (17:24 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Sprgs, CO
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N735FWCessna 182
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830531021359A
- Case key
- 15990
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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.
Analysis
The acft made a controlled hard emergency landing in an open field off airport after an encounter with icing. The pilot was making a turn during an instrument approach procedure and felt the acft begin to stall and buffet and slow in its response to roll. He pitched down to maintain control and began a descent to look for a landing spot. He made a rapid descent to 7500 ft.MSL & then slowed sink rate with power but continued descent. Between breaks in clouds he made groundcontact and finally broke out below 100 ft ceiling to land in a pasture with approach at 80 KTS full power nose high wings level. The acft landed hard and the rt main failed in rollout. 100 feet after initial impact the acft hit a fence. After the nose gear failed the prop dug in and the acft nosed over 156 feet from touchdown. The occupants were not injured and made an exit from the acft through a window since the doors were jammed shut.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N735FW
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18265398
- Airframe hours
- 2,174
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Microsystem Apllication Conslt
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 23, 1983 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- CDS · Childress, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- COS · Colorado Springs, runway 17, 11,021 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,049 total · 948 in this make and model · 918 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- COS, 10 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.