- Date
- May 4, 1997, 18:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Mobile, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1530MCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 29, 1997
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19970504007639A
- Case key
- 38273
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Probable cause
the pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions and failure to maintain directional control during landing rollout, which resulted in a collision with a runway light.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot stated he made a smooth landing after completing an ILS approach. The airplane started to weather vane to the right, the pilot lost directional control, and the airplane went off the runway to the right. The pilot initially stated he could not remember if he applied any aileron or rudder input before going off the side of the runway, but recanted his statement in the Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report. The airplane collided with a runway light, and the nosegear collapsed after the airplane went off the runway. Examination of the brakes, airframe, and flight control systems revealed no evidence of a precrash mechanical failure or malfunction.
Factual narrative
On May 4, 1997, about 1850 central daylight time, a Cessna 182P, N1530M, registered to Markat Inc., operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, crashed on rollout at Mobile Regional Airport, Mobile, Alabama. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and an IFR flight plan was filed. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The private pilot and one passenger reported no injuries. The flight originated from New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1 hour before the accident.
The pilot stated he was cleared for an ILS runway 32 approach, and canceled IFR before landing. The wind was down the runway and the touchdown was described as smooth. The airplane weather vaned to the right, he lost directional control and the airplane went off the runway to the right. He could not remember if he applied any rudder input before going off the side of the runway. The main landing gear collided with a runway light, and the nose gear collapsed after going off the runway. The pilot stated in the NTSB Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report that he applied full right aileron and left rudder.
Examination of the airplane by a fixed-base operator revealed no evidence of a precrash mechanical failure or malfunction of the brakes, airframe or flight control assembly.
Review of weather information obtained from Mobile Regional Airport, Mobile, Alabama, for the time of the accident revealed no recorded record of turbulence, downdrafts, windshear or gusts, and the wind was 010 degrees at 9 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1530M
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1872-64365
- Engine
- Continental O-470-S, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Edward R. March Jr.
- Registered owner
- Markat Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1997
- Departed
- NEW · New Orleans, LA
- Destination
- BFM
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BFM · Mobile Downtown, runway 32, 9,617 × 150 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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 727 total · 470 in this make and model · 678 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MOB, 10 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.