- Date
- March 28, 1985, 14:58 local (21:58 UTC)
- Place
- El Paso, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6282XCessna TU206G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850328011119A
- Case key
- 21710
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
On ground/water encounter with weather
Loss of control - on ground/water
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentFactor
Overconfidence in personal abilityFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Nose over
Analysis
Acft being taxiied to ramp after landing with wind 27 KTS gusting to 42 KTS. A gust of wind lifted the right wing and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6282X
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20605853
- Airframe hours
- 800
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-M, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Donald D. Hoover
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 10, 1985 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- 17XS · Lajitas, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ELP · El Paso Intl., runway 26, 9,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 33
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,130 total · 400 in this make and model · 4,100 as pilot in command · 191 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 27 knots, gusting 42
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ELP
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.