# Incident 20210206000059I: Cessna 402C, Billings, MT, February 6, 2021

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 6, 2021, 16:48 local time
- Place: Billings, MT
- Airport: Billings Logan International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Taxi
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: HYIA
- Location: 45.8078° N, 108.5435° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at BILLINGS LOGAN INTL (BIL), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=45.8078&lon=-108.5435&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6813J, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N6813J) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 402C (registry code 207590R, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-402c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: NONE (registry code 00000, https://openairdocs.org/engine/none) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 402C
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport, commercial pilot, private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,750 total, 710 in this make and model, 192 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20210206000059I

## Narrative

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

ON 02/06/2021, N6813J LANDED RUNWAY 10L AT KBIL. AIRCRAFT EXITED RUNWAY AT TAXIWAY D. AS THE AIRCRAFT EXITED ON TAXIWAY D, THE AIRCRAFT THEN SLID OFF OF TAXIWAY AND BECAME STUCK IN THE SNOW. NO PASSENGERS WHERE ON BOARD AT TIME OF THE INCIDENT. AFTER THE PILOT SHUT THE AIRCRAFT DOWN AND EXITED THE AIRCRAFT IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE LEFT PROPELLER BLADE SHOWED DAMAGE. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE LEFT PROPELLER HAD STRUCK A TAXIWAY LIGHT ASSEMBLY AS A RESULT OF THE AIRCRAFT LEAVING THE TAXIWAY SURFACE. THE PILOT REPORTED THAT THE RUNWAY SURFACE WAS CLEAR AND COULD SEE BLACKTOP SURFACE FOR TAXIWAY D AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N6813J (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20011013029549I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20011013029549I), Oct 13, 2001: Cessna 402C (N6813J), Boston, MA, Minor damage. (-23) Pilot taxied his aircraft in such a manner as to contact the right wing tip of a parked aircraft with the left wing tip of his aircraft.

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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