Cessna 182 N4876N

Summary

On 16 July 2019 at about 14:00 local time, a Cessna 182 registered N4876N was involved in an accident near Salmon, Idaho, United States. 3 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

16 July 2019 at 14:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Salmon, Idaho, United States

Nearest airport

Flying B Ranch Landing Strip (12ID)

Coordinates

44.9681, -114.7328

Aircraft

Cessna 182

Registration

N4876N

Category

Airplane

Year built

1979

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Caldwell → Caldwell

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA19CA423

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's delayed decision to abort the landing on a wet grass runway and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action. Contributing to the accident was the wet runway which degraded braking.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot receiving instruction reported that, during a landing on a high altitude, grass runway, sprinklers "doused the windscreen to the point we really couldn't see."  He applied the brakes, but they were "ineffective" and the airplane slid and was not decelerating, he elected to abort the landing.  During the go around, the airplane impacted the perimeter fence at the end of the runway and shortly after "scraped the top of a ridge."  The airplane was able to maintain flight and landed at a nearby airstrip without further incident.  The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.