Cessna 182 N5677B

Summary

On 24 September 2009 at about 19:00 local time, a Cessna 182 registered N5677B, operated by Hope Aviation LLC, was involved in an accident near Enterprise, Oregon, 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

24 September 2009 at 19:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Enterprise, Oregon, United States

Nearest airport

Pittsburg Airstrip (none)

Coordinates

45.4245, -117.2648

Aircraft

Cessna 182

Registration

N5677B

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Hope Aviation LLC

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Lord Flats → Pittsburg Airstrip

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

WPR09CA477

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to stop his airplane before it departed the end of the unimproved remote airstrip.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot was part of a five-airplane group that was landing at a series of unimproved remote airstrips. When they arrived at the third airstrip, three airplanes made successful landings, but the accident pilot, who was in an airplane with slightly different performance characteristics than the other three, was unable to stop before running off the end of the runway and impacting a ditch. After the accident, the pilot, who had not been into the subject airstrip before, stated that he should have made a better decision, and not assumed that because the other three pilots made it successfully that he could too.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.