Cessna 182 N5292N

Summary

On 30 March 2018 at about 18:50 local time, a Cessna 182 registered N5292N was involved in an accident near Nephi, Utah, United States. One person was 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

30 March 2018 at 18:50

Classification

Accident

Location

Nephi, Utah, United States

Nearest airport

Nephi Muni (U14)

Coordinates

39.7353, -111.8700

Aircraft

Cessna 182

Registration

N5292N

Category

Airplane

Year built

1980

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Bountiful → Nephi

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA18CA202

Nobody was injured.

The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot reported that, during the landing flare, the airplane "lurched to the left of the runway, yawed to the right, and nosed down." He added that, as he corrected the airplane parallel with the runway centerline, the airplane "immediately dropped" to the ground and it felt like a "hard landing." He continued the landing roll, taxied clear of the runway, and did a brief check from inside of the airplane for damage. Subsequently, he did not note anything abnormal and proceeded to taxi to the departure airport without further incident. A postflight examination revealed that the airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot further reported that he believed that a tailwind gust may have been responsible for the sideways lurch, and that the airplane may have stalled resulting in the nose pitching down and the hard landing. A commercial weather reporting station for the town, about 3 miles from the accident airport, reported about the time of the accident that the sky was clear, and the wind was southwest at 5 knots. The pilot landed runway 17.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.