# NTSB LAX07CA265: Cessna 182P, N58596, Fall City, WA, September 3, 2007 - Type: NTSB accident investigation - Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report - Date: September 3, 2007, 16:45 local (23:45 UTC) - Place: Fall City, WA - Coordinates: 47.559444, -121.863609 - Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=47.5594&lon=-121.8636&mi=10 - Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping) - Highest injury: No injuries - Injuries: 2 uninjured - Status: Completed, report November 29, 2007 - Report: Approved by Office Director - Parties: Federal Aviation Administration - NTSB case key (mKey): 66604 - NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=LAX07CA265 - NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/66604/pdf - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX07CA265 ## Probable cause The pilot's failure to maintain directional control. ## Sequence of events In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf). - Loss of control - on ground/water, landing - roll - directional control - not maintained, pilot in command (cause) - ground loop/swerve - not corrected, pilot in command (cause) - On ground/water collision with object, landing - roll - object - fence ## Analysis The airplane veered off the runway during landing and the outboard portion of the airplane's left wing was severed upon impacting a fence post. As the airplane rolled off the firm turf and onto the asphalt portion of the runway after touchdown, it veered left and the left wing lifted up. The pilot reported that "by the time I applied full right rudder the left main wheel had left the asphalt and was tracking into the grass along side the runway." The pilot further reported he then retarded the throttle to idle, the airplane veered 15 degrees left of the runway's centerline, and it was rolling "fairly fast." The pilot attempted further corrective action by pulling full back on the control yoke, and the airplane "launched back into the air." The airplane stalled about 10 feet above the ground, and the outboard 6 feet of the left wing was severed when it impacted a fence post. ## Factual narrative On September 3, 2007, about 1645 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 182P, N58596, veered off the runway and collided with obstacles during landing on runway 09 at the Fall City Airport, Fall City, Washington. The airplane was owned and operated by the pilot, and it was substantially damaged. Neither the private pilot nor passenger was injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan had been filed for the pilot's personal flight. The flight was performed under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91, and it originated from near Everett, Washington, about 1600. The pilot reported to the National Transportation Safety Board investigator that the "touchdown was a bit hard" but the airplane did not bounce. As the airplane rolled off the firm turf and onto the asphalt portion of the runway, it veered left and the left wing lifted up. The pilot reported that "by the time I applied full right rudder the left main wheel had left the asphalt and was tracking into the grass along side the runway." The pilot further reported he then retarded the throttle to idle, the airplane veered 15 degrees left of the runway's centerline, and it was rolling "fairly fast." The pilot attempted further corrective action by pulling full back on the control yoke, and the airplane "launched back into the air." The airplane stalled about 10 feet above the ground, and the outboard 6 feet of the left wing was severed when it impacted a fence post. Runway 09 is 3,000 feet long and 25 feet wide. ## Aircraft - Registration: [N58596](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N58596-2012-02-21), registration cancelled 2012-02-21, S/N 18262166, built 1973 (OpenAirDocs) - Reported make and model: Cessna 182P - Registry model: [Cessna 182P](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182p) (registry code 2075816) (OpenAirDocs) - Registry engine: [Continental O-470 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (registry code 17026, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs) - Category: Airplane - Serial number: 18262166 - Engines: Continental O-470R reciprocating - Damage: Substantial damage - Flight: Personal, Part 91 - Registered owner: Mike R. Miller - Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal - Departed: 76WA, Everett, WA - Destination: 1WA6 - Airport: 1WA6, Fall City, runway 09, 3,000 × 25 ft, grass/turf ## Flight crew As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names. - Pilot; age 53; private; airplane ratings: single-engine land; medical: class 3; flight hours: 114 total, 35 in this make and model, 35 in the last 90 days, 17 in the last 30 days ## Weather - Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day - Visibility: 10 statute miles - Lowest ceiling: none ## FAA reports on this event (1) The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs). - [Accident 20070903017759A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070903017759A), Sep 3, 2007: Cessna 182P, Fall City, WA, Substantial damage. (-23) On 9/03/07, N58596 owned and operated by the pilot [privacy data omitted], landed short of the runway and experienced a hard landing at Fall City Airport… From the NTSB's public API. 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