- Date
- April 10, 1983, 13:11 local (21:11 UTC)
- Place
- Red Bluff, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N82GWWalston Thorp T-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830410012119A
- Case key
- 23678
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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 acft nosed over in a ditch after leaving the runway during landing. The pilot had made 3 landings and was concludinghis flight when he misjudged his turn to exit the runway and lost control of the acft. The acft went off the paved surface rolled into a ditch and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N82GW
- Reported as
- Walston Thorp T-18
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- GW1
- Airframe hours
- 4
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-D, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- George Walston
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 1, 1983 · 4 hours before
- Airport
- RBL · Red Bluff Muni, runway 15, 6,000 × 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,400 total · 4 in this make and model · 1,367 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 85 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RBL, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.