- Date
- March 25, 1986, 10:08 local (16:08 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Rapids, IA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N528Beech G18S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860325027579A
- Case key
- 34150
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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
The pilot was aware that he would have a strong crosswind on landing. He was landing on runway 13 with winds from 180 degrees at 20 knots, gusting to 30 knots. The pilot stated that while the airplane was rolling down the runway, the right wing was lifted by a wind gust and it slowly veered to the left. He added power and lifted the airplane into the air in a left turn. The wind gust stopped and the airplane dropped to the ground on the left gear and nosed forward. The left propeller and wing tip hit the ground and the airplane cartwheeled to the left, hitting the nose, the right propeller and landing gear and came to rest 180 degrees from the landing runway heading.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N528
- Reported as
- Beech G18S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA-528
- Engine
- P&W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Areo Ti Rockford Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 31, 1985 · 88 hours before
- Departed
- MLI · Moline, IL
- Airport
- CID · Municipal, runway 13, 5,450 × 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
- 33
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,346 total · 355 in this make and model · 4,008 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CID
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.