- Date
- May 1, 1983, 11:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lonoke, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7044QCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 20896
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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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.
Loss of engine power(total) - nonmechanical
Fuel system,tank - inadequateCause
Fluid,fuel - waterCause
Forced landing
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - crop
Analysis
The eng quit after takeoff. The acft crashed in a wheat field while returning to the arpt. The carb was found full of water. The acft salvage operator reported finding a large quantity of water in the bladder-type fuel cells.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7044Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18262020
- Airframe hours
- 1,737
- Engine
- Continental O-470R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aerie, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1982 · 22 hours before
- Airport
- Tidwell Airstrip, runway 36, 3,000 × ft, grass/turf
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,400 total · 980 in this make and model · 1,400 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 18 nm away