- Date
- June 17, 1993, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Randolph Center, VT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5091NCessna 182Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930617041039A
- Case key
- 38609
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Probable cause
The pilot selected unsuitable terrain which resulted in collapse of the landing gear and the airplane nosing over. A contributing factor was a soft/wet runway.
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 airplane landed on a wet and soft grass strip. As the nose gear touched down the gear dug into the soft ground. The pilot said, '...the nose wheel and piston pulled out of the cylinder...' The main wheels broke off in the soft turf and the airplane nosed over.
Factual narrative
On Thursday, June 17, 1993, at about 1700 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 182Q, N5091N, piloted by Mr. Carl Brandon, nosed over during the landing roll at a private airstrip at Randolph Center, Vermont. The airplane was substantially damaged. The pilot and the one passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan had been filed. The flight was being conducted under 14 CFR 91.
According to the pilot's statement on the NTSB Form 6120.1/2:
"...after a left pattern and steep approach over 50' trees...at 45 knots (my usual short field speed), landed hard after flaring, on main wheels, nose wheel came down after mains rolled 4', after nose rolled 3' it started to dig into the soft turf ( it had rained the previous day)...the nose wheel and piston pulled out of the cylinder...the mains started to dig into the turf...the wheels broke off...the plane, riding on the spinner and cowl while turning over in a distance of 37'. the inverted plane slid backwards 6' before coming to rest..."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5091N
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 182-67508
- Airframe hours
- 1,233
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-F, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Carl Brandon
- Registered owner
- Carl Brandon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 18, 1993 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- MPV · Berlin, VT
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- VT55 · Brandon, runway 35, 1,300 × 25 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,463 total · 393 in this make and model · 1,326 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.