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MIA92LA055 · Cessna 182Q

1 Jan 1992 · Eustis, FL, United States

ANA Cessna 182Q · Accident: undershoot on approach

From Albert Whitted Airport (SPG) to an unrecorded destination

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Event

NTSB case
MIA92LA055
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 182Q

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
N7582S
Operator
ANA
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Albert Whitted Airport (SPG), St. Petersburg, FLTo not recorded
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
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
Undershoot
Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
Tree(s)
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 › Altitude, misjudged
  • Pilot in command › Distance, misjudged

Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Eustis, FL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.

NTSB narrative

WHILE ON A STRAIGHT-IN APPROACH TO RWY 36 (NOT VASI EQUIPPED), DURING A DARK NIGHT, THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH A TREE LOCATED WEST OF THE EXTENDED CENTERLINE OF THE RWY. THE PLT INITIATED A GO-AROUND AND LANDED UNEVENTFULLY AT A NEARBY ARPT.

Probable cause

THE PILOT MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND DISTANCE RESULTING IN UNDERSHOOTING THE LANDING. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACIDENT WAS THE DARK NIGHT CONDITION.

Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record MIA92LA055
Event ID
20001211X14031
Case number
MIA92LA055
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 1992-01-02.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: c619936088740437ecc1cfa7a6f4bdaa0bd540794bf67260b9a3b30b0d69ac47; retrieved 2026-09-23T03:27:13.520Z.