- Date
- January 3, 2010, 11:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Fallbrook, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7417NCessna 182P
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 6, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Adminstration
- FAA report
- 20100103025709A
- Case key
- 75220
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudged altitude and airspeed that resulted in his failure to attain the proper touchdown point.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that his landing approach was too high and too fast, and the airplane ballooned during the touchdown. The airplane touched down just past the halfway point on the runway. The pilot said that he braked hard but the airplane skidded off the end of the runway and nosed over in soft dirt. The nosewheel collapsed and both wings were substantially damaged. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures prior to the accident.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that his landing approach was too high and too fast, and the airplane ballooned during the touchdown. The airplane touched down just past the halfway point on the runway. The pilot said that he braked hard but the airplane skidded off the end of the runway and nosed over in soft dirt. The nose wheel collapsed, and both wings were substantially damaged. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7417N
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18263195
- Airframe hours
- 7,449
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470 SERIES, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Michael K. Fuqua
- Registered owner
- Jeffrey A White
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 6, 2009 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- CRQ · Carlsbad, CA
- Destination
- L18 · Fallbrook, CA
- Airport
- L18 · Fallbrook Community Airpark, runway 18, 2,160 × 60 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
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 18, 2008
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 196 total · 68 in this make and model · 125 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- NFG, 6 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 27, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 243 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.