- Date
- May 12, 2022, 20:10 local (May 13, 2022, 01:10 UTC)
- Place
- Owensboro, KY
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N92913Cessna 182
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- 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
- 20220512006859A
- Case key
- 105074
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 maintain directional control during takeoff.
Findings · 2
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 of the airplane was departing at night, and reported that as the airplane accelerated during the takeoff he felt the nose landing gear had “shimmied.” About this time he increased the pitch attitude for rotation and felt the nose wheel leave the ground, but it touched back down and the airplane then veered to the left. The pilot was unable to correct and the airplane departed the left side of the runway, encountered a ditch, bounced into the air, then landed hard. During the hard landing the nose landing gear collapsed, and the fuselage and engine mount were substantially damaged. The pilot and a flight instructor examined the airplane after the accident both were unable to identify evidence of any mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92913
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (N)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18260427
- Built
- 1970
- Airframe hours
- 3,499
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bakalar Flying Club Inc
- Registered owner
- Bakalar Flying Club Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 3, 2021 · 225 hours before
- Airport
- OWB · Owensboro/Daviess County Regional Airport, runway 18, 8,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 30, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 168.2 total · 15.6 in this make and model · 168.2 as pilot in command · 6.5 in the last 90 days · 1.9 in the last 30 days · 1.9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 100° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OWB
- METAR
- OWB 130143Z 10007KT 10SM CLR 25/12 A3000 RMK AO2
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 13, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 16.5 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 N92913 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.