- Date
- December 3, 1985, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- East Liverpool, OH
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6208VCessna 172RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 13394
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
According to the plt, he was unable to stop the acft at the end of the taxiway after he had taxied through water. The acft came to rest after sliding into a drainage ditch at the end of the taxiway. The plt continued the flt although the acft was damaged. The brakes functioned on the subsequent taxi and return flt to home arpt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6208V
- Reported as
- Cessna 172RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0591
- Airframe hours
- 1,619
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-F1A6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charleston Afb Aero Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- GSO · Greensboro, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- O2G · Columbiana Co.
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 490 total · 30 in this make and model · 384 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AGC, 38 nm away
Other investigations on N6208V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.