Cessna 208B N80GE

Summary

On 18 August 2012 at about 19:47 local time, a Cessna 208B registered N80GE, operated by Dugan, Briggs and Associates, was involved in an accident near Raeford, North Carolina, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

18 August 2012 at 19:47

Classification

Accident

Location

Raeford, North Carolina, United States

Nearest airport

P K Airpark (5W4)

Coordinates

35.0197, -79.1881

Aircraft

Cessna 208B

Registration

N80GE

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Dugan, Briggs and Associates

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Skydiving

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Southernpines → Raeford

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA12CA519

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's decision to land in a grassy area next to a paved runway, which resulted in impact with a ditch and subsequent nose landing gear collapse.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

According to the pilot, during the landing on a grassy area that was parallel to the paved runway, the airplane touched down and impacted a ditch near an intersecting taxiway. The airplane became airborne, touched down on the other side of the intersecting taxiway, bounced again, and then landed hard on the nose gear, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage and subsequent collapse of the nose landing gear. In a telephone interview, the pilot stated that the ditch was about 200 feet from his initial touchdown point and that he regularly lands on the grass, in the opposite direction, in order to minimize the wear on the main landing gear tires. No preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures were noted with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.