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MKC82FA161 · Piper PA-28R-200

29 Aug 1982 · Mediapolis, IA, United States

Flying Country Club Piper PA-28R-200 · Accident: in flight encounter with weather en route

From Johnson County Executive Airport (OJC) to Quad City International Airport (MLI)

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Event

NTSB case
MKC82FA161
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
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
Instrument Meteorological Cond

Piper PA-28R-200

Aircraft type
Piper PA-28
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
N56373
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Johnson County Executive Airport (OJC), Olathe, KSTo Quad City International Airport (MLI), Moline, IL
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
En route · cruise
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
Visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC)
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 › Design stress limits of aircraft, exceeded
  • Pilot in command › Flight controls, improper use of
  • Pilot in command › Spatial disorientation
  • Pilot in command › VFR flight into imc, continued

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

DURING THE 1725 CDT WX BRIEFING THE PLT WAS INFORMED THAT THE KANSAS CITY AREA WOULD BE 1600 FT BROKEN, OCCASSIONAL 800 FT BROKEN, 3/4 MI VISIBILITY WITH THUNDERSTORMS & MODERATE RAIN WITH STRONG SURFACE WINDS ABOUT 35K. THE FORECAST WAS VALID TO 2200 CDT. THE PLT INDICATED HE DID NOT NEED ANY ENROUTE FORECASTS. THE BRIEFER STATED TO THE PLT THAT RADARWAS SHOWING AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS & RAIN SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM 70 MI NW OF KANSAS CITY DOWN TO 60 MI NORTH OF KANSAS CITY & FROM THERE ON UP TO FT.DODGE, THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NE AT 30K. THE PLT DEPARTED OLATHE, KS AT 2000 CDT. A WITNESS HEARD THE SOUNDS OF AN ACFT ENG DECREASING, INCREASING & THEN SILENCE. A WITNESS WHO HEARD THE ACFT PASS BY JUST BEFORE IMPACT STATED THAT THE WX AT THE TIME WAS MODERATE RAIN, APPROXIMATE 1 MI VISIBILITY, & INTERMITTENT LIGHTNING & THUNDER. PORTIONS OF EACH WING & THE HORIZONTAL TAIL SECTION WERE LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 3/8 MI SOUTH OF THE MAIN WRECKAGE.

Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record MKC82FA161
Event ID
20020917X03879
Case number
MKC82FA161
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 1982-08-30.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: d3ab0214de67bcd97a52543af410eec4de8ac91abb977a1274b62d9aa81d18db; retrieved 2026-09-21T07:52:45.176Z.