- Date
- October 21, 1988, 15:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- La Belle, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4930DCessna 182A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881021047659A
- Case key
- 32347
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During soft field takeoff from a rough strip the acft collided with a hole causing the nose wheel to drop onto the runway hard. The nose wheel separated and the acft veered to the right and collided with a drainage ditch. .
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4930D
- Reported as
- Cessna 182A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51030
- Airframe hours
- 2,076
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Badgerow, Arthur A.
- Registered owner
- Arthur A Badgerow
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1987 · 106 hours before
- Destination
- FD77 · Wimauma, FL
- Airport
- Orange Grove, runway 27, 3,500 × 70 ft, grass/turf
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 320 total · 201 in this make and model · 245 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY, 23 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 N4930D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.