- Date
- June 23, 2016, 10:25 local (14:25 UTC)
- Place
- Crystal River, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N892BVCessna 182T
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 10, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20160623007289A
- Case key
- 93441
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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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to execute a go-around following an unstabilized approach, which resulted in a bounced landing and runway excursion.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot stated that she had executed four full-stop, taxi-back landings to runway 09 and one full-stop, taxi-back landing to runway 27. She departed runway 27, remained in the traffic pattern for that runway, but while on short final approach, she realized that the airplane was lined up with the taxiway. She maneuvered to the left in an attempt to salvage the approach, and the airplane then touched down and bounced. The airplane travelled off the left side of the runway onto grass and collided with a ditch, which resulted in substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. She also stated that the accident could have been prevented if she had conducted a go-around.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated that she had executed four full-stop taxi back landings to runway 09, and one full-stop taxi back landing to runway 27. She departed runway 27, remained in the traffic pattern for that runway, but while on short final approach realized she was lined up with the taxiway. She maneuvered to the left in an attempt to salvage the approach, and touched down then bounced. The airplane travelled off the left side of the runway onto grass and collided with a ditch, resulting in substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. She also stated that the accident could have been prevented by execution of a go-around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N892BV
- Reported as
- Cessna 182T (T)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18281329
- Built
- 2004
- Airframe hours
- 1,040
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 28, 2015
- Departed
- CGC · Crystal River, FL
- Destination
- CGC · Crystal River, FL
- Airport
- CGC · Crystal River Airport, runway 27, 4,557 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system
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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 2, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 400 total · 75 in this make and model · 207.6 as pilot in command · 70.6 in the last 90 days · 46.2 in the last 30 days · 1.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- CGC
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 17, 2017, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.