- Date
- November 17, 1986, 12:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Bluff City, KS
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2038GCessna 182A
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861117056089A
- Case key
- 34271
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt stated that he was cruising at 2,500 ft MSL en route southbound to enid, Oklahoma, when he encountered fog but flew for 15 to 20 minutes before executing a 180DEG northerly turn back to hutchinson, KS. According to the plt, he was in the clouds trying to fly out of IFR conditions when the acft flew into the ground and he lost conciousness. National weather service records show forecasts, valid for aprx the time of the accident, calling for IMC and marginal VMC throughout Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The plt further stated that he received no weather briefing and filed no flight plan. Post accident calculations reveal that the acft impacted the terrain in a shallow descent near cruise power. It porpoised and wheelbarrowed before digging in the soft dirt. The nose gear sheared off and the acft flipped inverted, shedding it's right cabin door and ejecting the plt rated passenger.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2038G
- Reported as
- Cessna 182A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51338
- Airframe hours
- 4,741
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hubert E. Morgan
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 12, 1985 · 52 hours before
- Departed
- HUT · Hutchinson, KS
- Destination
- WDG · Enid, OK
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
- 80
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,250 total · 900 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 300 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- END, 41 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.