Viking Express Beech G18S accident
Beech G18S · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during takeoff
From Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) to CVG · CINCINATI, OH
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI82DA316
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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
Beech G18S
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 18
- 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
- N38RM
- Operator
- Viking Express
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW), Chicago, ILTo CVG · CINCINATI, OH
- 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
- Takeoff · roll/run
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Landing gear, tire › Failure, partial
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Chicago, IL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
DURING TAKEOFF ON RUNWAY 13R, THE AIRCRAFT SWERVED TO THE LEFT JUST AS IT OBTAINED TAILWHEEL LIFT-OFF SPEED. THE AIRCRAFT THEN STRUCK A DIRT BANK AND WAS DAMAGED. BOTH THE PILOT AND THE AIRCRAFT OPERATOR STATED THAT THE LEFT MAIN TIRE LOST PRESSURE, BUT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO DETERMINE WHY. ACCORDING TO THE 2330 WEATHER REPORT, THE WIND WAS FROM 040 DEG AT 5 KTS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI82DA316
- Event ID
- 20020917X03038
- Case number
- CHI82DA316
- 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 1982-08-31.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3d6299722b2d7b02fc47eb482888a588e085d8e5018131985734e907b8d29618; retrieved 2026-09-18T21:07:08.068Z.