- Date
- April 3, 1985, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Walla Walla, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N5438BCessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850403035579A
- Case key
- 40137
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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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.
Nose over
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Weather condition - high windFactor
Analysis
During taxi from landing a gust of wind pushed the acft from behind onto soft ground where it nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5438B
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33438
- Airframe hours
- 3,580
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ronald D. Page
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PSC · Pasco, WA
- Destination
- 67WA · Walla Walla, WA
- Airport
- 67WA · Page, runway 29, 1,300 × 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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,267 total · 156 in this make and model · 1,159 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 17 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ALW, 186 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.
Other investigations on N5438B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.