- Date
- August 4, 1993, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Emporia, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N33299Cessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930804027979A
- Case key
- 15769
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain.
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 pilot taxied on a gravel road toward an intersecting paved road for takeoff. He stated he placed the right wheel in a ditch while trying to clear a tree at the left wing tip. The horizontal stabilizer bumped the bank of the ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N33299
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0948
- Airframe hours
- 1,305
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Brocker,Anthony Panozzo
- Registered owner
- Robert Brocker,Anthony Panozzo
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 5, 1992 · 70 hours before
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
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 983 total · 750 in this make and model · 171 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.