CEN26LA009 · Cessna 182RG
Cessna 182RG · Accident: powerplant system/component malfunction/failure en route
From Kirksville Regional Airport (irk) to Middleton Municipal Morey Field (c29)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN26LA009
- 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
- Ongoing
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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 182RG
- 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
- N4609S
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kirksville Regional Airport (irk)To Middleton Municipal Morey Field (c29)
- Aircraft age
- About 46 years (built 1979)
- 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
- Defining eventThe 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
- Powerplant system/component malfunction/failure
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On October 3, 2025, about 1720 central daylight time, a Cessna 182RG airplane, N4609S, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Cottonville, Iowa. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that during cruise flight he noticed an increase in engine rpm. He attempted to increase the pitch of the propeller to decrease engine rpm, but there was no response from the engine. The pilot declared an emergency with air traffic control and was cleared to descend to 4, 000 ft mean sea level (msl) and to proceed to Dubuque Regional Airport, Dubuque, Iowa. The pilot stated that as he leveled at 4,000 ft msl, he heard a sound similar to an engine misfire, and the engine immediately shook “violently” and ran rough as the airplane started descending rapidly. The pilot noticed the engine oil pressure gauge had dropped to zero. The pilot executed a forced landing to a road. During the rollout, the left wing struck the shoulder of the road, the airplane departed the roadway and impacted a barbed wire fence. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right-wing strut, right horizontal stabilizer, and the fuselage. The airplane was retained for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN26LA009
- Event ID
- 20251006201790
- Case number
- CEN26LA009
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: a25dbf6538793959d90b684b045a8e74053c34e0faefa3e7362dc176900669db; retrieved 2026-09-16T20:25:55.197Z.