- Date
- August 8, 1988, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wildwood, NJ
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N20722Cessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880808031449A
- Case key
- 36199
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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Probable cause
The aircraft struck a building after if experienced a power loss due to fuel exhaustion caused by oil dilution and low engine compression.
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 Cessna 182 experienced a power loss and made an off airport landing in a field, striking a building and receiving substantial damage. Post crash examination of the aircraft showed the power loss was caused by fuel exhaustion.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20722
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18261155
- Airframe hours
- 2,894
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James L Webb
- Registered owner
- Larry D. Kelley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 25, 1987 · 95 hours before
- Departed
- 3B4 · Eliot, ME
- Destination
- WWD · Wildwood, NJ
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
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,026 total · 209 in this make and model · 6,400 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- M1V, 23 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.