NYC84LA191

NTSB accident investigation · Cessna 182R II · Fulton, NY · June 10, 1984

Accident · No injuriesLimited investigationFinal report
Date
June 9, 1984, 22:00 local (Jun 10, 1984, 02:00 UTC)
Place
Fulton, NY
Injuries
1 uninjured
Damage
Substantial damage
Phase of flight
Landing
Aircraft
N9845HCessna 182R II
Weather
Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
Status
Completed
Report
Approved by Office Director
FAA report
19840609029339A
Case key
35668

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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.

Hard landingLanding - flare/touchdown
Flare - improperPilot in commandCause
Lack of total experience in kind of aircraftPilot in commandFactor
Light condition - nightFactor
Loss of control - in flightLanding
Recovery from bounced landing - improperPilot in commandFactor
Stall - inadvertentPilot in commandCause
In flight collision with terrain/waterLanding
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - runway

Analysis

When the acft bounced into the air on a hard landing at night, the plt applied back pressure on the yoke. Acft stalled back to the runway, damaging nose gear/firewall structure and left wing tip. Plt stated most of his experience was in acft configured with conventional lndg gear (tail wheel) and that he was not sure of proper procedures for a bounced landing recovery in acft configured with tricycle lndg gear.

Aircraft

Registration
N9845H
Reported as
Cessna 182R II
Category
Airplane
Serial number
18268065
Airframe hours
350
Engine
Continental O-470-U, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
Damage
Substantial damage
Flight
Personal · Part 91
Registered owner
Doty, James C.
Airworthiness certificate
Standard, Normal
Airport
N00 · Oswego Co., runway 24, 4,000 × 100 ft, macadam

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
56
Certificate
Commercial
Airplane ratings
Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
Instrument ratings
Airplane
Medical
Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
Seat
Left
Flight hours
1,375 total · 56 in this make and model · 1,125 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours

Weather

Conditions
Visual (VMC) · Night/bright

FAA reports on this event · 1

The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.

Other investigations on N9845H · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.