DEN87LA195 · Cessna 182L
Eagle Flight Center Cessna 182L · Accident: airframe, component or system failure during takeoff
From Aberdeen, SD to Crystal Airport (MIC)
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN87LA195
- 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 182L
- 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
- N3371R
- Operator
- Eagle Flight Center
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Aberdeen, SDTo Crystal Airport (MIC), Minneapolis, MN
- 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
- Airframe, component or system failure
- 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
- Landing gear, tire › Failure, total
- Pilot in command › Abort, delayed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT WAS TAKING OFF ON RWY 13 AT ABERDEEN, SD, MUNI ARPT. HE SAID WHEN HE REACHED 55 MPH HE ROTATED THE ACFT AND THE STALL WARNING HORN SOUNDED. HE SAID HE ALLOWED THE NOSEWHEEL TO SETTLE BACK ON THE RWY. THE ACFT THEN VEERED RIGHT AND LEFT, THEN DEPARTED THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE RWY AND OVERTURNED. SHREDDED REMAINS OF THE NOSEWHEEL TIRE WERE FOUND ON THE RWY. IMPRESSIONS WERE FOUND OF THE ASPHALT SURFACE OF THE RWY CONSISTENT WITH TIRE RIM CONTACT. THE ACFT OPERATOR SAID THE NOSEWHEEL WAS INSTALLED ON FEBRUARY 1, 1983, AT A TACHOMETER READING OF 1963:47 HRS, A DIFFERENCE OF 699 HRS. THE CASING WAS IN FAIR CONDITION. ACCORDING TO AN A&P MECHANIC, A PATCH FOUND ON THE INSIDE OF THE CASING WAS A BALANCE. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE BALANCE CAUSED THE TIRE TO FAIL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN87LA195
- Event ID
- 20001213X31485
- Case number
- DEN87LA195
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- 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: 93f73974ae00e1a0dfb7151521f9291e25cc5666812dfea411d7e0df9bceadec; retrieved 2026-09-23T12:42:14.850Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: departure. The narrative states "THE PLT WAS TAKING OFF ON RWY 13 AT ABERDEEN, SD, MUNI ARPT"; the departure was not recorded.