- Date
- April 6, 1990, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Concord, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N42599Cessna 182L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900406007609A
- Case key
- 26771
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Probable cause
The pilot in command to properly judge the timing of the landing flare.
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
On touchdown, the aircraft landed on the nose gear. The pilot lost control of the aircraft and it ran off the right side of the runway colliding with some rough dirt areas. The student pilot said that he encountered either a wind shear or a strong cross wind just before touchdown. No pilot reports of windshear activity were reported either before or after the accident. The computed direct cross wind component existing at the time was 10 knots less than the maximum factory demonstrated cross wind component of the Cessna 182L.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42599
- Reported as
- Cessna 182L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18259098
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Jeffrey M Masonek
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PVF · Placerville, CA
- Destination
- CCR
- Airport
- CCR · Concord, runway 19L, 2,500 × 75 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 110 total · 70 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- CCR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.