ATL94LA057 · Cessna 182RG
Cessna 182RG · Accident: overrun during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to 37W · Erwin, NC
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL94LA057
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 182RG
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N738CK
- Operator
- Phillips, E. Rolland · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo 37W · Erwin, NC
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff · rejected takeoff
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Overrun
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PRIVATE PILOT AND HIS PASSENGER WERE TAKING OFF FROM A 2,700 FOOT LONG GRASS AIRSTRIP. HE REPORTED THAT THE RUNWAY WAS WET FROM A RECENT RAIN. HIS USUAL PRACTICE WHEN TAKING OFF TO THE SOUTH IS TO PERFORM A RUNUP IN FRONT OF THE HANGAR, WHICH IS LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE NORTH END OF THE RUNWAY, THEN MAKE A ROLLING TAKEOFF FROM THAT POSITION. DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL, HE FELT THAT THE AIRCRAFT ACCELERATED SLUGGISHLY, AND ABORTED THE TAKEOFF AFTER THE AIRCRAFT DID NOT REACH EXPECTED AIRSPEEDS. UNABLE TO STOP THE AIRCRAFT DUE TO THE WET GRASS, HE GROUND LOOPED THE AIRCRAFT. HE REPORTED TO AN FAA INSPECTOR THAT HE DID NOT CONSIDER THE EFFECTS OF THE WET RUNWAY ON AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE. THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE WAS TEST-RUN FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENT WITH SATISFACTORY RESULTS.
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PLANNING AND PREPARATION, IN THAT HE DID NOT CONSIDER THE EFFECTS OF A WET, GRASS RUNWAY ON AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE. FACTORS WERE THE WET, GRASS CONDITIONS OF THE RUNWAY SURFACE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL94LA057
- Event ID
- 20001206X00838
- Case number
- ATL94LA057
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 641a8bb913c0f575ca5a0504f2de527adb275232f876da6feec0f0e63f5c012a; retrieved 2026-09-23T01:17:32.102Z.