- Date
- October 9, 1987, 09:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Monument Valley, UT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7746GCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871009059439A
- Case key
- 17401
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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 private pilot was landing on a dirt runway and at touchdown a crosswind weathervaned the aircraft to the right. The pilot added full power to try to go around but the aircraft settled back to the ground left of the runway. The aircraft came to rest 300 yards left of the runway in scrub brush.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7746G
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 188263328
- Airframe hours
- 1,021
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Groomer, Ellis G.
- Registered owner
- Ellis G Groomer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 21, 1987
- Departed
- FMN · Farmington, NM
- Airport
- 71V · Monument Valley, runway 16, 3,100 × 15 ft, dirt
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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 291 total · 231 in this make and model · 230 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.