- Date
- March 13, 1982, 09:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pepperell, MA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2281GCessna 182B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 72196
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - icyFactor
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - rough/unevenFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - snowbankFactor
Analysis
When the pilot arrived at his destination, he landed on an icy runway. Near the end of his landing roll, the aircraft encountered a rut and veered into a snowbank beside the runway. The wind was light and variable.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2281G
- Reported as
- Cessna 182B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51581
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Benjaman Kendig
- Registered owner
- Benjaman Kendig
- Departed
- Nashua, NH
- Destination
- Westerly, RI
- Airport
- Pepperell, runway 6, 2,700 × 0 ft
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 208 total · 17 in this make and model · 168 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 82 °F