- Date
- June 7, 1982, 06:00 local (11:00 UTC)
- Place
- Transylvania, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9424JCessna T188C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820607020909A
- Case key
- 72854
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Overrun
Distance - misjudgedCause
Ground loop/swerve - intentionalFactor
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain conditionFactor
Terrain condition - wetFactor
Analysis
The pilot landed fast on a wet grass runway. Application of brakes failed to stop the aircraft and the pilot attempted to ground loop and struck a ditch damaging the right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9424J
- Reported as
- Cessna T188C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T18803801T
- Airframe hours
- 352
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Mark Wayne Clement
- Registered owner
- Mark Wayne Clement
- Departed
- 11 · Transylvania, LA
- Destination
- 11 · Transylvania, LA
- Airport
- 11 · Prison Farm, runway 18, 2,000 × 0 ft, grass/turf
N9424JRegistration cancelled Mar 25, 2013 · Cessna T188CAirframe modelCessna T188CEngine modelContinental TSIO-520 series
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,143 total · 1,143 in this make and model · 1,143 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 158 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLU, 45 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.