- Date
- September 2, 2012, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Metaline Falls, WA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N42014Cessna 182L
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 5, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20120902018429A
- Case key
- 84889
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadequate compensation for a sudden wind shift during the landing roll, which resulted in a runway overrun.
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 stated that there was a sudden wind shift from a headwind to a tailwind during the landing roll. This pushed the airplane past the end of the runway and down a 50-foot embankment and resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage and control surfaces. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have affected normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated that during the landing roll, the airplane experienced a sudden wind shift from a headwind to a tailwind. This pushed the airplane past the end of the runway down a 50-foot embankment. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and control surfaces.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42014
- Reported as
- Cessna 182L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18258808
- Airframe hours
- 4,432
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jeff Gorman
- Registered owner
- Gorman Jack
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 6, 2012
- Departed
- 65S · Bonners Ferry, ID
- Destination
- 09S · Metaline Falls, WA
- Airport
- 09S · Sullivan Lake, runway 16, 1,765 × 150 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
- 53
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 3,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 12 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KSZT, 43 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 12, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 442 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.