DEN87LA227 · Cessna 182Q
Cessna 182Q · Accident: nose over during landing
From Gallup Municipal Airport (GUP) to 4AC
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN87LA227
- 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
- N735TJ
- Operator
- John Wirth
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Gallup Municipal Airport (GUP), Gallup, NMTo 4AC
- 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 · landing roll
- 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
- Nose over
- 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(cfi) › Airspeed, excessive
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Distance, misjudged
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Go-around, not performed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE INSTRUCTOR TOOK CONTROL OF THE ACFT TO MAKE THE LANDING DUE TO EXCESSIVE CROSSWIND. THE IP STATED THAT THE APCH SPEED WAS 70 TO 75 KTS. THE ACFT WAS LANDED ON THE FIRST THIRD OF RUNWAY AND BRAKES APPLIED WITH HALF RUNWAY REMAINING. IP REPORTED THAT BRAKE APPLICATION PROVIDED NO BRAKING ACTION. THE BRAKES WERE RE-APPLIED WITH EXCESSIVE PRESSURE WITH NO EFFECT. THE ACFT ROLLED OFF THE END OF RWY 35. POST CRASH EXAM REVEALED NO MECH PROBLEMS. BOTH PLTS STATED THAT THEY LISTENED TO THE AUTOMATED TERMINAL INFORMATION SERVICE (ATIS), CONTACTED ABQ APPROACH CONTROL AND HEARD THE CORONADO UNICOM ADVISORIES, ALL OF WHICH INDICATED THAT THE WINDS WERE 110 DEGREES AT 10 KNOTS. THE PLT OF AN ACFT THAT DEPARTED EARLIER FM CORONADO RADIOED THAT THE WINDS WERE FM THE EAST AT 15 KNOTS, GUSTING TO 25 KNOTS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN87LA227
- Event ID
- 20001213X31787
- Case number
- DEN87LA227
- 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 1987-08-25.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 467038b4156e0c88f2c94363e1e695b2cfdfc04a207d8bb8686669b1cc8a1d01; retrieved 2026-09-23T12:17:16.293Z.