Cessna 182R N9962H

Summary

On 1 March 1986 at about 17:50 local time, a Cessna 182R registered N9962H was involved in an accident near Manassas, Virginia, United States. One person was on board and one had minor injuries. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

1 March 1986 at 17:50

Classification

Accident

Location

Manassas, Virginia, United States

Nearest airport

Manassas Municipal (W10)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Cessna 182R

Registration

N9962H

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Unknown → Chesterfield

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

BFO86FA016

1 person had minor injuries.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

WITNESSES OBSERVED BLACK SMOKE TRAILING FROM THE AIRCRAFT SHORTLY AFTER LIFTOFF AND CONTINUE UNTIL GROUND IMPACT. THE PILOT INDICATED THAT HE FIRST NOTICED AN ENGINE ROUGHNESS ABOUT 100-200 FEET IN THE AIR AND THOUGHT IT WAS SIMILAR TO AN ENGINE THAT WAS RUNNING TO RICH. HE ELECTED NOT TO TRY AND ABORT THE TAKEOFF BUT TO TRY AND PERFORM A NORMAL TRAFFIC PATTERN AND COME AROUND AND LAND AGAIN. POWER CONTINUED TO DECREASE WITH THE RESULT BEING THAT HE WAS FORCED TO ATTEMPT TO LAND THE AIRCRAFT IN A NEARBY FIELD, COLLIDING WITH THE ONLY HOUSE LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THE FIELD. EXAMINATION OF THE AIRCRAFT AND THE ENGINE DID NOT DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE REPORTED LOSS OF POWER.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.