Cessna 182P N9136M

Summary

On 8 August 1996 at about 03:15 local time, a Cessna 182P registered N9136M was involved in an accident near St. Anthony, Idaho, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

8 August 1996 at 03:15

Classification

Accident

Location

St. Anthony, Idaho, United States

Nearest airport

Hog Hollow (Private)

Coordinates

43.9806, -111.7904

Aircraft

Cessna 182P

Registration

N9136M

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

Unk

Light

Not Reported

NTSB number

SEA96FA182

1 person died.

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during a landing attempt. Factors included: probable dusk lighting conditions and no lights on the airstrip. Conributing to the pilot's injury severity was his failure to fasten his seat belt and shoulder harness.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot was practicing touch-and-go landings at his unlighted private dirt airstrip. Shortly after sunset, his family noted him missing. The aircraft wreckage was found at the bottom of a 300-foot-deep gully adjacent and parallel to the airstrip early the next morning. The pilot was found fatally injured 10 feet from the wreckage. Investigators found a set of tracks curving off the edge of the airstrip toward the gully, along with broken pieces of wingtip fairing; the track extended off the airstrip edge down slope for 400 feet and terminated. The aircraft wreckage was roughly aligned with these tracks although a second ground scar going the opposite direction was found running down the slope near the bottom, adjacent to the wreckage. Investigators did not find any evidence of preimpact malfunctions of the aircraft, but did find the aircraft's seat belt and shoulder harness unfastened with no evidence of damage to, or failure of, the seat belt or buckle. The pilot's son reported that the pilot had been taking 'Pondemun and Fastum' [sic] diet pills.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.