- Date
- April 20, 1982, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cottonwood Fall, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N89585Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 70357
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
After executing two landings on runway 36, the pilot noticed a wind shift from 360 degrees to 260 degrees and he taxied back up the runway and started a takeoff on runway 18. The pilot stated that about 1300 from the departure end of the runway, he encountered an incline and deep mud. He further stated that he lifted off at 45-50 knots and collided with a barbed wire fence at the end of the 2600' runway. The pilot did not state whether he noticed the incline and the mud when he taxied up the runway. Winds were reported as 320 degrees at 17 gusting to 25 knots at emporia, KS, 17 miles to the east.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89585
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282796
- Airframe hours
- 1,330
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Emporia Aviation
- Registered owner
- Danny L. Richards
- Departed
- 9K0 · Cottonwood Fall, KS
- Destination
- EMP · Emporia, KS
- Airport
- 9K0 · Chase County, runway 18, 2,600 × 155 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 110 total · 80 in this make and model · 69 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 17 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EMP, 17 nm away
Other investigations on N89585 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.