- Date
- June 2, 1995, 14:46 local (20:46 UTC)
- Place
- Alamosa, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2788QCessna 182K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 19, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950602048529A
- Case key
- 19442
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground swerve and collision with a taxiway sign. Factors relating to the accident were: the unfavorable (gusty/quartering) wind condition, and the taxiway sign's lack of frangibility.
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 pilot landed the aircraft on runway 20 with a wind from 180 degrees at 22 gusting 25 knots. During the landing roll, the aircraft departed the downwind side of the runway and collided with a non-frangible taxiway sign. The crosswind component was within the demonstrated crosswind envelope.
Factual narrative
On June 2, 1995, at 1446 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 182K, N2788Q, went off the side of the runway during landing roll at Alamosa, Colorado. The two occupants were not injured and the aircraft sustained substantial damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for this personal flight and a VFR flight plan was filed. The flight had departed Las Cruces, New Mexico, at 1215.
According to the pilot, he landed with a 20 degree crosswind at 22 knots with gusts to 25 knots and drifted to the right during the landing roll. As the aircraft departed the right side of the runway it struck a non frangible taxiway sign.
The ninety degree crosswind component was 12 knots. This crosswind component is within the demonstrated crosswind capability as listed in the aircraft operating manual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2788Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 182K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18257988
- Airframe hours
- 5,185
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- John A. Darden
- Registered owner
- West Mesa Flying Association
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 1, 1995 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- LRU · Las Cruces, NM
- Destination
- ALS
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ALS · Alamosa Municipal, runway 20, 7,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 263 total · 12 in this make and model · 183 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 22 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ALS, 1 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.
Other investigations on N2788Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.