MKC84FA002 · Cessna 182R
Cessna 182R · Accident: in flight encounter with weather on approach
From Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (LIT) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC84FA002
- 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
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 2
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Instrument 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
- N5191E
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (LIT), Little Rock, ARTo 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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 · IFR final approach
- 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
- In flight encounter with weather
- 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
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Decision height, not used
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
AT 2346 CDT, KANSAS CITY CENTER PROVIDED THE 2251 CDT SPRINGFIELD WX & ADVSED THE PLT TO EXPECT VECTORS FOR AN APCH TO RWY 1. VECTORS WERE PROVIDED UNTIL 0006;50 CDT, WHEN CENTER ADVISED THAT RADAR CONTACT WAS LOST, 3 MI SOUTH OF THE OUTER MARKER COMPASS LOCATOR. THE PLT WAS CLEARED FOR THE APCH & WAS DIRECTED TO CONTACT SPRINGFIELD RADIO. AT 0008:21 CDT, THE PLT CALLED SPRINGFIELD FSS & ADVISED THAT HE WAS ON THE APLH, BUT WAS UNABLE TO RECEIVE THE OUTER MARKER. THE FSS ADVISED THAT THE COMPASS LOCATOR, GLIDE SLOPE & LOCALIZER WERE MONITORING NORMAL. SHORTLY AFTER THAT, THE ACFT HIT THE TOPS OF TREES & CRASHED, APRX 1200 FT WEST OF THE APCH END OF RWY 1. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE WX HAD DETECIORATED VERY RAPIDLY FROM THE TIME THE PLT WAS CLEARED FOR THE APCH TO THE TME OF THE ACCIDENT. A RENTAL SLIP SHOWED THAT THE ADF & MARKER BEACON WERE NOP ON 9/29/83, BUT NO RECORD WAS FOUND OF EITHER BEING REPAIRED. A SPECIAL WXBULLETIN WAS RECEIVED AT THE FSS, BUT THE SPECIALIST DID NOT HEAR THE WARNING BUZZER. THE PLT WAS ON DUTY NEARLY 15 HRS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC84FA002
- Event ID
- 20001214X44920
- Case number
- MKC84FA002
- 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: 10c56e09f2a5b8d8979c444097924c97daf00fe1be9ddd2b52aab65b704f7a16; retrieved 2026-09-18T14:30:00.536Z.