- Date
- March 14, 1988, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Batavia, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N759GJCessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880314005389A
- Case key
- 36119
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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 acft was returning to the airport for landing after an instructional flight with a student. The student was landing the aircraft but when snow showers were encountered while flying downwind, the instructor pilot took control. He stated that he was landing the aircraft nose high due to snow accumulation on the runway. However directional control was lost and the aircraft drifted off of the runway, the left main gear went into mud, and the aircraft nosed over to an inverted attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N759GJ
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18265980
- Airframe hours
- 1,901
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- P & L Air,Inc.
- Registered owner
- P & L Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 11, 1988 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- 3G8
- Airport
- 3GA · Genesee Co., runway 28, 4,400 × 75 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
- 49
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,085 total · 95 in this make and model · 1,041 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.