- Date
- November 7, 1989, 13:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Billings, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N3481LCessna U206B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891107048549A
- Case key
- 17864
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Probable cause
Improper planning/decision by the pilot while taxiing during unfavorable wind conditions.
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 private plt had completed a cross country flight. The pilot said during a taxiing turn into the tiedown spot, the acft overturned. The plt rprtd the wind was from 280 deg at 29 gusting 38 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3481L
- Reported as
- Cessna U206B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U206-0781
- Engine
- Continental IO-540-F9, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Larry C. Hoffman
- Departed
- NONE · Heath, MT
- Destination
- BIL
- Airport
- BIL · Billings
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,427 total · 1,180 in this make and model · 1,427 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 29 knots, gusting 38
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N3481L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.