MKC82IA047 · Cessna 152
Emporia Aviation Cessna 152 · Incident: in flight collision with object during initial climb
From Cottonwood Falls Airport (9K0) to Emporia Municipal Airport (EMP)
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC82IA047
- 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
- Incident
- 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 152
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 152
- 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
- N89585
- Operator
- Emporia Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Cottonwood Falls Airport (9K0), Cottonwood Falls, KSTo Emporia Municipal Airport (EMP), Emporia, KS
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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 collision with object
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Aborted takeoff, not performed
- Pilot in command › Unsuitable terrain or takeoff/landing/taxi area, selected
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
AFTER EXECUTING TWO LANDINGS ON RUNWAY 36, THE PILOT NOTICED A WIND SHIFT FROM 360 DEGREES TO 260 DEGREES AND HE TAXIED BACK UP THE RUNWAY AND STARTED A TAKEOFF ON RUNWAY 18. THE PILOT STATED THAT ABOUT 1300 FROM THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RUNWAY, HE ENCOUNTERED AN INCLINE AND DEEP MUD. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE LIFTED OFF AT 45-50 KNOTS AND COLLIDED WITH A BARBED WIRE FENCE AT THE END OF THE 2600' RUNWAY. THE PILOT DID NOT STATE WHETHER HE NOTICED THE INCLINE AND THE MUD WHEN HE TAXIED UP THE RUNWAY. WINDS WERE REPORTED AS 320 DEGREES AT 17 GUSTING TO 25 KNOTS AT EMPORIA, KS, 17 MILES TO THE EAST.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC82IA047
- Event ID
- 20020917X02478
- Case number
- MKC82IA047
- 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: 51192056be8b59baa87b90a64f6990bd742690d68714dcd6a8ca2bb5c4088aba; retrieved 2026-09-24T03:23:22.359Z.