- Date
- July 9, 2024, 18:06 local (Jul 10, 2024, 00:06 UTC)
- Place
- Teton Village, WY
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4083DCessna 182A
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- 20240710010179A
- Case key
- 194697
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 failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing roll.improper compensation for the prevailing wind conditions, resulting in impact of the left wing on the runway surface.
Findings · 3
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 of the airplane reported that, during the landing flare, he experienced a left quartering crosswind which lifted the left wing and pushed the airplane to the right. The counteracted with aileron input, however, pilot banked the airplane left to return to the runway centerline. Subsequently, the left wing impacted the runway surface, which resulted in resulting in substantial damage to the left wing spar. After the wing impacted the runway surface, tThe pilot initiated and completed a go-around and landed uneventfully. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 1, with the wind from 300° at 13 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4083D
- Reported as
- Cessna 182A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34783
- Built
- 1957
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Silver Bullet Inc
- Registered owner
- Silver Bullet Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 11, 2022
- Departed
- KWYS · West Yellowstone, MT
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KJAC · Jackson Hole Airport, runway 01, 6,300 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, 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
- 76
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 28, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,082 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 991 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 13 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.21 inHg
- Turbulence
- Moderate
- Observed at
- KJAC
- METAR
- KJAC 092356Z 31013G18KT 10SM FEW120 29/04 A3021 RMK AO2 SLP171 T02890039 10306 20228 58010
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 12, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 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.