FTW88DRG12 · Cessna 182R
Cessna 182R · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
From HUB · Houston, TX to 88R
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's aircraft involved. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW88DRG12
- 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 182R Possible conflict
- 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
- N3163E
- Operator
- Chernosky, Marvin E. · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From HUB · Houston, TXTo 88R
- 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
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- 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 on ground/water
- 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 › Compensation for wind conditions, improper
- Pilot in command › Directional control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Go-around, not performed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT SAID THE WINDSOCK INDICATED THE WIND WAS FROM THE NORTHEAST; HOWEVER, WITNESSES SAID THE WINDS WERE FROM THE SOUTH & THE ACFT LANDED DOWNWIND. THE PLT SAID HE WENT AROUND AFTER THE 1ST APCH, & ON THE NEXT PATTERN, HE MADE A LOWERFINAL APCH. HE SAID THAT SHORTLY AFTER CROSSING THE THRESHOLD, THE ACFT WAS SLAPPED FORCEFULLY TO THE GND, THEN IT LIFTED OFF AGAIN & HE CORRECTED FOR A STRONG X-WIND FROM THE RIGHT. RPRTDLY, THE AIRPLANE WENT LEFT, THEN RIGHT, & SUBSEQUENTLY, THE LEFT WING OF HIS ACFT SHEARED OFF THE EMPENNAGE OF A CESSNA 210 PARKED NEAR THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RWY. THE NOSEWHEEL OF THE MOVING ACFT (N3163E) CAME OFF, ITS NOSE STRUT DUG IN THE TERRAIN & THE ACFT NOSED OVER. WITNESSES SAID THE ACFT TOUCHED DOWN IN WHAT LOOKED TO BE THE LAST 1000 FT OF THE RWY. APRX 24 MI WEST AT AUSTIN, TX, THE WIND WAS RPRTD TO BE FROM 080 DEG AT 11 GUSTING 16 KTS WITH TOWERING CUMULUS CLOUDS MOVING WEST.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW88DRG12
- Event ID
- 20001213X26828
- Case number
- FTW88DRG12
- 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: 7c0c40ede54a82bba7db9f9c548d080eb93af9967eb9fc87f86efb503737efd2; retrieved 2026-09-23T09:00:28.012Z.