- Date
- November 8, 1989, 16:00 local (Nov 9, 1989, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Quilcene, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3117YCessna 182E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 41146
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to adequately compensate for tailwind conditions when landing on a short 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 pilot reported that he was unaware that it had rained prior to the time of the accident and did not know that the grass runway was wet. During the landing roll, the pilot was unable to stop the airplane in time before it collided with trees at the end of the runway. The pilot was landing the airplane to the north, the wind was reported by the pilot as from the south at 15 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3117Y
- Reported as
- Cessna 182E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18254117
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Orville M. Fisk
- Departed
- S43 · Snohomish, WA
- Destination
- Quilcene, WA
- Airport
- Kimshan Ranch, runway 36, 1,300 × 40 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Flight hours
- 2,050 total · 1,900 in this make and model · 60 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
Other investigations on N3117Y · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.