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NTSB accident investigation · Cessna 182B · Challis, ID · April 23, 2024

Accident · No injuriesClass 4 · LimitedFinal report
Date
April 23, 2024, 12:30 local (18:30 UTC)
Place
Challis, ID · airport environment
Injuries
1 uninjured
Damage
Substantial damage
Phase of flight
Landing
Aircraft
N2299CCessna 182B
Defining event
Landing: Landing area overshoot
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
20240423005579A
Case key
194144

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Probable cause

The pilot’s failure to attain a proper touchdown point during landing which resulted in a runway excursion and subsequent nose over.

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.

Performance/control parameters: descent/approach/glide pathAircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability · Not attained/maintainedCessna 182B: 2 casesAll aircraft: 809 casesProbable cause

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 of the airplane reported that while on approach to land on a dirt runway, the airplane was “a little higher than normal.” The airplane landed a couple of hundred feet from the departure end of the runway. During the landing roll, he maneuvered the airplane to avoid a mudhole on the runway. As the pilot realigned the airplane back to runway centerline, he noted that the airplane was traveling too fast as it approached the departure end of the runway. The airplane departed the end of the runway, impacted the departure end runway’s rock boundary markers, and came to rest inverted. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Aircraft

Registration
N2299C
Reported as
Cessna 182B
Category
Airplane
Serial number
52334
Built
1959
Airframe hours
4,000
Engine
Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
Damage
Substantial damage
Flight
Personal · Part 91
Airworthiness certificate
Standard, Normal
Last inspection
Annual · January 5, 2023 · 60 hours before
Departed
BOI · Boise, ID
Destination
Same as departure
Airport
D47 · Cougar Ranch, runway 02/20, 1,400 × 20 ft, grass/turf
Equipment
Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, 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
83
Injuries
None
Certificates
Commercial, Airline transport
Airplane ratings
Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
Instrument ratings
Airplane
Medical
BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
Last flight review
August 21, 2023
Seat
Left
Restraint
3-point
Flight hours
8,800 total · 4,000 in this make and model · 8,800 as pilot in command

Weather

Conditions
Visual (VMC) · Day
Visibility
10 statute miles
Lowest ceiling
None
Temperature
54 °F, dew point 18 °F
Altimeter
30.00 inHg
Observed at
KLLJ, 33 nm away
METAR
KLLJ 231755Z AUTO VRB04KT 10SM CLR 12/M08 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP133 T01221083 10122 21011 58012

Docket · 3

The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 24, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.2 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.

Other investigations on N2299C · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.