- Date
- October 8, 1996, 13:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Manzanita, OR
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N759RECessna 182Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1997
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19961008031279A
- Case key
- 42523
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Probable cause
failure of pilot to adequately compensate for wind conditions on final approach and attain a proper touchdown point for landing. A factor relating to the accident was: the unfavorable wind condition.
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 checked the windsock and then made a downwind entry for landing. He reported that on final approach, he had a quartering headwind until just before landing. He said that just before touchdown, the wind stopped, and the airplane stalled (settled) onto sandy terrain about 50 feet short of the runway threshold and flipped over.
Factual narrative
On October 8, 1996, about 1315 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 182Q, N759RE, landed short of runway 33 at Nehalem Bay State airport near Manzanita, Oregon. The airplane was substantially damaged, but the private pilot and his two passengers were not injured.
The pilot stated that he checked the wind sock and then made a downwind entry for runway 33. He said that, on final approach, he had a quartering headwind until just prior to touchdown, when the wind stopped. The airplane stalled and flipped over in the sand about 50 feet short of the runway threshold.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N759RE
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18206192
- Airframe hours
- 1,650
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James W. Parks
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 27, 1996 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- 7S3 · Hillsboro, OR
- Destination
- 3S7
- Airport
- 3S7 · Nehalem Bay State, runway 33, 2,350 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 580 total · 542 in this make and model · 536 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.