SEA94GA024 · Cessna 182R
Civil Air Patrol, Utah Wing Cessna 182R · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Logan-Cache Airport (LGU) to Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC)
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA94GA024
- 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
- Government
- 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 182R
- 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
- N9652X
- Operator
- Civil Air Patrol, Utah Wing
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Logan-Cache Airport (LGU), Logan, UTTo Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC)
- 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
- Public Aircraft
- 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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
- Loss of control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Altitude, inadequate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Salt Lake City, UT, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT OF A CESSNA 182R WAS CLEARED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 32 WITH BOEING TRAFFIC ONE MILE FINAL FOR RUNWAY 35. RADAR DATA SHOWS THE CESSNA CROSSING THE GROUND TRACK OF THE BOEING APPROXIMATELY 38 SECONDS AFTER THE 757'S PASSAGE AND AT AN APPROXIMATE ALTITUDE OF 100 FEET AGL. DURING THE FINAL APPROACH THE CESSNA ENCOUNTERED A 'BURBLE' FOLLOWED BY A RAPID RIGHT ROLL AND NOSE UP PITCH. THE AIRCRAFT IMPACTED SHORT OF THE RUNWAY 32 THRESHOLD AS THE PILOT WAS REGAINING CONTROL.
Probable cause
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S MAINTAINING INADEQUATE ALTITUDE WHILE CROSSING OVER THE GROUND TRACK OF THE LANDING BOEING 757. A FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS WAKE TURBULENCE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA94GA024
- Event ID
- 20001211X13794
- Case number
- SEA94GA024
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1993-11-10.
- API snapshot SHA-256: bfa264051cc60719c556fd697d8cf0a8a8a28dc73854cf0580d5a59c3d769caf; retrieved 2026-09-18T21:22:32.383Z.