- Date
- June 18, 1993, 17:30 local (Jun 19, 1993, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fallon, NV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1234MCessna 182F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930618019479A
- Case key
- 28412
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to detect and avoid a guy wire from a power pole during the landing roll on a private farm airstrip.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot said he landed on the farm airstrip and was rolling out when a wing contacted a guy wire from a nearby power pole. The wire contact caused the aircraft to veer off the runway, collide with a ditch and nose over onto its back. According to the FAA airport master record file for the landing strip, it is a private use facility with one gravel surfaced runway. A set of 50 foot tall power lines and poles run parallel to the runway at a distance of 50 feet from the runway surface edge.
Factual narrative
On June 18, 1993, at about 1730 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 182F, N1234M, collided with a tower guy wire during landing rollout at Swansons Number 3 Farm strip which is about 33 miles north west of Fallon, Nevada. The aircraft was owned and operated by Carey Transportation of Fallon, Nevada, and was on a business flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The aircraft incurred substantial damage. Neither the certificated private pilot nor his one passenger were injured. The flight originated at Eureka, Nevada, on the day of the mishap at about 1650 hours as a flight to the farm airstrip to conduct a hay survey for a potential truck hauling job.
In both his written and oral statements, the pilot said he landed on the airstrip and was rolling out when a wing contacted a guy wire from a nearby power pole. The wire contact caused the aircraft to veer off the runway, collide with a ditch and nose over onto its back.
According to the FAA airport master record file for the landing strip, it is a private use facility with one gravel surfaced runway. A set of 50 foot tall power lines and poles run parallel to the runway at a distance of 50 feet from the runway surface edge.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1234M
- Reported as
- Cessna 182F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18254577
- Airframe hours
- 2,226
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Carey Transport
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 12, 1992 · 63 hours before
- Departed
- 05U · Eureka, NV
- Destination
- NV64
- Airport
- NV64 · Swansons Farm Strip #3, runway 16, 2,500 × 50 ft, gravel
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 554 total · 362 in this make and model · 509 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.