- Date
- September 18, 2020, 13:33 local (17:33 UTC)
- Place
- Hollywood, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N234MECessna 182
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20200918012339A
- Case key
- 101999
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during a crosswind takeoff, which resulted in a collision with airport lights and a sign.
Findings · 5
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 was departing on a cross country flight. Immediately after liftoff the nose of the airplane veered left. The pilot attempted to correct for the crosswind but was unsuccessful and the airplane struck runway lights and a sign resulting in substantial damage to the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N234ME
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (S)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18280751
- Built
- 2000
- Airframe hours
- 1,617.9
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540 SER, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 28, 2020 · 50.2 hours before
- Departed
- HWO · Hollywood, FL
- Destination
- AND · Anderson, SC
- Airport
- HWO · North Perry, runway 28L, 3,255 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Handheld GPS
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
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 31, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,320 total · 329 in this make and model · 1,320 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- KHWO
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 9, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.1 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.
Other investigations on N234ME · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.