- Date
- April 28, 1992, 17:23 local (21:23 UTC)
- Place
- Winfield, WV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9207CCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920428011959A
- Case key
- 37142
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Probable cause
The improper in-flight planning and decision of the pilot to land on the strip and the pilot's delay in attempting the go-around. Factors in this accident were: the pilot was unable to maintain control of the aircraft due to the wet grass and the tail wind.
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 pilot attempted a landing on a 900 foot long, newly cut, wet grass strip, over a tree line, with a tail wind. Once on the ground, he could not stop. The pilot attempted a go-around and brought the flaps up to one notch. The airplane become airborne just prior to the end of the strip, flew into a thicket of briar and collided with an old building foundation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9207C
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31306
- Airframe hours
- 3,462
- Engine
- Continental O-470-J, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kathleen Radford
- Registered owner
- Kathleen Radford
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 1, 1991 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- I57 · Waverly, OH
- Airport
- NONE · None, runway 12, 900 × 20 ft, grass/turf
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
- 37
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15,000 total · 800 in this make and model · 3,000 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 76 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRW, 18 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.