# Incident 19970227008999I: Cessna 172P, Tulsa, OK, February 27, 1997

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 27, 1997, 19:30 local time
- Place: Tulsa, OK
- Airport: Richard Lloyd Jones Jr Airport
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 36.1540° N, 95.9928° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Tulsa, OK, within about 8 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.1540&lon=-95.9928&mi=10
- Aircraft: N96525, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N96525-2019-03-09) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172P (registry code 2072436, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172p) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172P
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 9,365 total, 1 in this make and model, 139 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19970227008999I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NARRATIVE: AT APPROXIMATELY 1930 LOCAL TIME, SHREE BHATTARAI LANDED ON RUNWAY 19L AT RIVERSIDE AIRPORT (SRVS). AS HE TAXIED DOWN THE RUNWAY HE SAW THE BLUE LIGHTS OF TAXI-WAY TANGO (ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF RUNWAY 31), AND MISTAKING THEM FOR TAXI-WAY KILO, HE STARTED HIS TURN BEFORE THE TAXI-WAY LINING UP ON THOSE LIGHTS. AS HE REACHED AN ANGLE 90 DEGREES TO RUNWAY 19L HIS LANDING LIGHT ILLUMINATED THE GRASS AREA WEST OF THE RUNWAY. WHEN HE NOTICED WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND SAW THE GRASS AHEAD OF HIM, HE TRIED TO SHARPEN HIS TURN TO THE LEFT USING THE LEFT BRAKE BUT WAS UNABLE TO PREVENT THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR FROM EXITING THE RUNWAY. THE LANDING GEAR BECAME STUCK IN THE SOFT EARTH AND HE WAS UNABLE TO MOVE. DICTATED TO JASON HOGUE AND KEVIN R. MURPHY (2130: 2/27/97)

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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