- Date
- February 13, 1985, 18:35 local (Feb 14, 1985, 02:35 UTC)
- Place
- Ukiah, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N2180QCessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850213049959A
- Case key
- 24650
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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
On a dark night, the plt failed to observe that the taxiway (on which he was taxiing) made a 90 deg turn to connect with the beginning of the rwy. Where the taxiway turned, the acft continued straight ahead & went into a 3 ft deep ditch. There were no taxiway edge markings & the centerline stripe was not of a reflective type.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2180Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0580
- Airframe hours
- 1,700
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- William B. Cook
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 13, 1984 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- UKI
- Destination
- SMF · Sacramento, CA
- Airport
- UKI · Ukiah, runway 15, 5,005 × 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,967 total · 26 in this make and model · 6,800 as pilot in command · 87 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.