- Date
- April 30, 1992, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dixie, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8409TCessna 182B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920430013119A
- Case key
- 41664
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions. Factors relating to the accident were the high density attitude and the downdraft.
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 encountered downdraft winds about 25 feet AGL during final approach for landing on a turf airstrip. The aircraft descended abruptly, landed hard and nosed over. The pilot was aware of downdrafts on the approach.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8409T
- Reported as
- Cessna 182B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 182B52309
- Airframe hours
- 2,780
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Leonard, James A. And Linda K.
- Registered owner
- Leonard, James A. And Linda K.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1991 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- U70 · Cascade, ID
- Airport
- U79 · Chamberlain Basin, runway 25, 4,100 × 200 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,060 total · 225 in this make and model · 830 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MYL, 48 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.