- Date
- February 23, 1990, 18:55 local (23:55 UTC)
- Place
- Cleveland, OH
- Injuries
- 63 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N202AUBoeing 737-200
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report December 8, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14566
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Probable cause
The improper taxi speed to be able to negotiate a safe turn off the snow covered runway.
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
The air carrier aircraft slid off the snow covered runway while trying to negotiate a turn onto the taxiway. The pilot had been instructed to turn right onto the runway but turned left and taxied in the wrong direction on the runway. Visibility was reduced by snow and the personnel in the tower could not see the runway nor was the surface detection radar operating. The ATC local controller had told the aircraft twice ' no delay' because of aircraft on approach. The aircraft on approach was ultimately given a go around and not allowed to land.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N202AU
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19419
- Engine
- P&W JT8, 12,000 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- U.S.Air, doing business as U.S.Air
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Destination
- EWR · Newark, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CLE · Hopkins, runway 5R, 8,999 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 350° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Observed at
- CLE