- Date
- June 8, 2024, 10:57 local (14:57 UTC)
- Place
- Telford, TN
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3304RCessna 182
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: 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
- 20240608005919A
- Case key
- 194428
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 control of the airplane while performing a go-around, which resulted in an inflight collision with trees.
Findings · 3
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
After entering the traffic pattern at the destination airport, the pilot approached the runway for landing. The pilot described that during the landing approach the airplane was, “…a little fast and started to float which left my nose high.” The pilot initiated a go-around and the airplane’s nose pulled to the left. The pilot then corrected to the right an attempted to climb above trees to the right of the runway. The airplane subsequently contacted the trees and then impacted the ground. The pilot and passenger were seriously injured, and the airplane’s fuselage, wings, and engine mount were substantially damaged during the accident. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. Witness statements and video showed the airplane approach the turf runway normally and that after the pilot initiated the go-around, the airplane yawed to the left and the nose pitched up. Subsequently, the nose pitched down slightly, and a right bank began. The airplane continued in a right bank with a nose high pitch attitude and flaps extended until it impacted the trees to the right of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3304R
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (L)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18258604
- Built
- 1967
- Airframe hours
- 4,252
- Engine
- Continental Aerospace Technologies O-470-R41, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 13, 2024 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- GCY · Greeneville, TN
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 97TN · Kite Fld, runway 4, 2,800 × 50 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, 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
- 45
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 1, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 233 total · 149 in this make and model · 233 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- TRI, 15 nm away
- METAR
- KTRI 081453Z 22005KT 10SM FEW250 23/15 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP151 T02330150 51013
Docket · 10
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 18, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 65.3 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.