- Date
- March 24, 1985, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bay City, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2163CCessna 195B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850324010769A
- Case key
- 21704
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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
Cessna exhaust stack failed at weld. Hot exhaust burned through magnrto p leads and eng failed. During forced landing on a narrow farm road with a quartering tailwind. The acft drifted off the side of the road during the landing roll and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2163C
- Reported as
- Cessna 195B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16148
- Airframe hours
- 2,946
- Engine
- Jacobs R755B2, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Virgil Lyons
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1984 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- 3R1 · Bay City, TX
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
- 48
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,295 total · 92 in this make and model · 2,250 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.