MKC82DA100 · Cessna 182B
Cessna 182B · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From Milford, IA to Milford, IA
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC82DA100
- 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 182B
- 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
- N5392B
- Operator
- Kevin Dudley, Busines and Spor
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Milford, IATo Milford, IA
- 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
- Approach · VFR go-around
- 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
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- 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
- Fuel starvation
- 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
- Fluid, fuel › Starvation
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Milford, IA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT REPORTED THAT HE WAS LOW ON FUEL AND WAS FLYING OVER THE AIRSTRIP BEFORE LANDING TO DROP A BANNER THAT HE WAS TOWING. SHORTLY AFTER THE BANNER WAS RELEASED, THE AIRCRAFT ENCOUNTERED TURBULENCE CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO GO INTO A STEEP BANK. AT ABOUT THAT TIME, THE ENGINE QUIT. THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO RESTART THE ENGINE AND ELECTED TO LAND IN A HAY FIELD BESIDE THE RUNWAY. AFTER TOUCHDOWN, THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. THE FUEL SELECTOR WAS FOUND IN THE "BOTH" POSITION, THE LEFT TANK WAS EMPTY, AND THE RIGHT TANK HAD 2 GALLONS OF FUEL REMAINING. FUEL COULD BE DRAINED FROM THE FUEL FILTER.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC82DA100
- Event ID
- 20020917X03816
- Case number
- MKC82DA100
- 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: 250f86fd39225d2e7a9f3aac77e120a08bd7f5e5724945098ba8608d937bc396; retrieved 2026-09-24T02:59:17.144Z.