- Date
- May 25, 1982, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Price, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N878AHCessna TU206G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 25, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820525019089A
- Case key
- 72310
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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
The aircraft encountered a dust devil shortly after touchdown during a landing on an unimproved area. The pilot reported that the dust devil moved the aircraft to the right and into a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N878AH
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206G (206)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20604570
- Airframe hours
- 1,047
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Hunts Flying Service Inc.
- Registered owner
- Hunts Flying Service Inc.
- Departed
- Price, UT
- Destination
- Price, UT
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,364 total · 933 in this make and model · 3,111 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 5 knots
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N878AH · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.