- Date
- February 13, 1988, 12:23 local (20:23 UTC)
- Place
- Redding, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- CFCTOCessna 185E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25950
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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 control - on ground/water
Flare - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Dragged wing,rotor,pod,float or tail/skid
Analysis
The canadian plt attempted to land the conventional gear acft on runway 34 with the reported local wind from 330 deg at 16 KTS. The acft touched down about 2400 ft beyond the threshold of the 7003-foot-long rwy. After a bounced landing, directional control was lost & the acft groundlooped. The plt did not report experiencing any mechanical difficulties with the acft. The plt did not file an acc report.
Aircraft
- Registration
- CFCTO
- Reported as
- Cessna 185E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18501948
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mitco Marine Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BFL · Bakersfield, CA
- Destination
- RDD · Redding, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RDD · Redding Muni, runway 34, 7,003 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 400 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RDD