- Date
- January 12, 2023, 11:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Agua Caliente Springs, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2875KCessna 180K
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 106595
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control during an aborted approach, which resulted in a collision with terrain.
Findings · 1
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 he announced his position on the common traffic advisory frequency while inbound to land on his destination runway. Just prior to touchdown, the pilot observed an airplane landing directly in his path from the opposite end of the runway. To avoid a collision, the pilot added power and attempted to climb to the left, but impacted a berm, nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2875K
- Reported as
- Cessna 180K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18053111
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 5,951
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U17, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 15, 2022
- Departed
- KMYF · San Diego, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- L54 · Agua Caliente Springs, runway 29, 2,500 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 79
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 31, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,599 total · 2,530 in this make and model · 2,513 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 0.4 in the last 30 days · 0.4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.28 inHg
- Observed at
- KL08, 18 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KL08 121935Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 18/M02 A3028 RMK AO2=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 23, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10.6 MB in all.