- Date
- September 8, 1990, 16:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lummi Island, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5249CCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900908044159A
- Case key
- 41274
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control while applying brakes after landing.
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 of the Cessna 182P did not realize that the airfield where he was landing had an up grade and a dip in it. After touchdown, the aircraft became airborne when crossing the dip, and the pilot lost directional after it touched down a second time, when he used hard brake application.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5249C
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18262642
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pete Buma, doing business as Triangle Heart Dairy
- Departed
- BLI · Bellingham, WA
- Airport
- LUM · Lummi Island, runway 14, 1,650 × 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
- 62
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,108 total · 916 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- BLI, 8 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.