- Date
- April 13, 1989, 19:05 local (Apr 14, 1989, 02:05 UTC)
- Place
- Arlington, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4811DCessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890413008049A
- Case key
- 40996
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Probable cause
The student pilot touched down too FAR down the runway to allow him to stop before running into a trailer.
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 accident occurred while the student was attempting to land at a grass strip, at the end of an unauthorized solo cross-country flt. This was his first landing on his family's farm grass strip. He landed about two thirds the way down the 3,000 ft strip and could not stop before running into a parked farm trailer. The students total flt time was about 20 hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4811D
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34911
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Patrick L. Heinen
- Registered owner
- Patrick L Heinen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PSC · Pasco, WA
- Airport
- None
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Flight crew
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- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 20 total · 10 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.