- Date
- May 14, 1988, 15:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Dalhart, TX
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N6069JCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880514016189A
- Case key
- 22640
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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.
Analysis
The local flight was circling at low altitude and reduced airspeed over farm equipment and level farmland while the passenger in the rear seat took photographs. The passenger in the right front seat said he heard the stall warning horn just prior to the accident. The inadvertent stall resulted in a loss of control and the aircraft impacted the ground on the right wingtip before coming to rest doubled over with the inverted cabin area facing rearward underneath the aft fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6069J
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18263623
- Airframe hours
- 1,532
- Engine
- Continental O-470-S, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wing Cattle Company Et Al.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 3, 1987
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 550 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 14 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AMA, 62 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.