- Date
- February 22, 1982, 09:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Near Patterson, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N61766Cessna A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 22, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820222005019A
- Case key
- 71912
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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
After landing the pilot began to step taxi on an unfamiliar canal to a drilling rig location. While negotiating a turn in the canal, the left wing struck a tree limb. The aircraft veered to the left and the right wing dropped and hit the water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N61766
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504253
- Airframe hours
- 87
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Subsurface Tools
- Registered owner
- Subsurface Tools
- Departed
- Patterson, LA
- Destination
- Patterson, LA
- Airport
- PTN
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,341 total · 188 in this make and model · 1,139 as pilot in command · 154 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.