- Date
- November 22, 1989, 12:05 local (19:05 UTC)
- Place
- Dove Creek, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N42699Cessna 182L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891122046439A
- Case key
- 17868
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Improper flare by the student pilot, his failure to maintain runway alignment, and a delay by the flight instructor (CFI) in initiating remedial action, which resulted in a loss of airspeed and a stall/mush after the aircraft drifted over a cultivated field beside the runway. Related factors were: the crosswind and soft terrain.
Analysis
The student pilot was making a landing on a 4000 x 25 foot dirt runway with a right, quartering headwind. After the student flared, the airplane floated about 10 feet above the surface, then drifted to the left until it was over a cultivated field beside the runway. The instructor pilot (CFI) took control of the plane and added power to go around; however, power did not respond immediately. The airplane then stalled, landed hard in the cultivated field, and nosed over.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42699
- Reported as
- Cessna 182L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18259146
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Farmham, Walter B.
- Departed
- TEX · Telluride, CO
- Destination
- TEX
- Airport
- 8V6 · Dove Creek, runway 1, 4,000 × 25 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Invalid Medical for flight
- Flight hours
- 870 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.