- Date
- February 22, 2024, 13:25 local (21:25 UTC)
- Place
- Weippe, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6323BCessna 182A
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Part(s) separation from AC
- 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
- FAA report
- 20240222002799A
- Case key
- 193862
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to secure the oil filler cap during the preflight inspection, which resulted in a precautionary landing on the soft surface and subsequent nose over.
Findings · 4
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, as he exited the airport traffic pattern, he noticed that engine oil was accumulating on the left portion of the windscreen, and he decided to make a precautionary landing. During the approach, the left portion of the windscreen was obscured, and the pilot switched from the left to the right seat. The pilot fastened his seat belt, continued the approach, and touched down on a soft spot on the snow-covered turf runway just short of his aim point. The airplane’s nose landing gear dug into the soft surface and the airplane nosed over. Additionally, the pilot reported that during his postflight inspection, he noticed that the oil filler cap was separated from the filler port and dangling by its security chain. The pilot opined that during his preflight inspection, he saw the oil filler cap but did not physically twist the cap to ensure its security. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6323B
- Reported as
- Cessna 182A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34223
- Built
- 1957
- Airframe hours
- 5,015
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 21, 2024 · 0.4 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 3ID2 · The Last Resort, runway 9, 1,700 × 70 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- 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
- 71
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 24, 2022
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 24,800 total · 745 in this make and model · 98 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.35 inHg
- Observed at
- KP69, 20 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KP69 221652Z AUTO 00000KT 07/04 A3035 RMK AO1 SLP287 P0004 T00720039=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 15, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.6 MB 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.