- Date
- April 15, 2022, 14:30 UTC
- Place
- Tuskegee, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9388XCessna 182R
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- 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
- 20220415005519A
- Case key
- 104975
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadequate compensation for the gusty crosswind wind conditions which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent nose gear collapse.
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 reported that while landing and during the landing flare, a gust of wind caused the airplane to drift off centerline and the nose to rise. The airplane ballooned, then subsequently bounced hard before ballooning a second time. The nose dropped sharply, and the pilot was unable to control the airplane before it struck the runway hard on the nose landing gear, causing the landing gear to collapse and fold back, which resulted in substantial damage to the engine compartment, firewall and underside of the airframe. The pilot stated that there were no pre accident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9388X
- Reported as
- Cessna 182R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18268509
- Built
- 1985
- Airframe hours
- 4,667.8
- Engine
- Lycoming O-470-U36B, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Civil Air Patrol Inc
- Registered owner
- Civil Air Patrol Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 9, 2021 · 31.4 hours before
- Departed
- EET · Alabaster, AL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 06A · Moton Field Municipal Airport, runway 13/31, 5,005 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, 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
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 11, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 68.2 total · 7 in this make and model · 68.2 as pilot in command · 7.3 in the last 90 days · 1.8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 13 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Observed at
- AUO, 16 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KAUO 151456Z AUTO 10013G20KT 10SM CLR 19/04 A3021 RMK AO2 SLP226 T01940039 51007=
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 26, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 13.3 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.