- Date
- August 14, 1986, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Chester, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7373HCessna A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860814040519A
- Case key
- 25232
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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 servicing the aircraft's fuel tanks to their 80 gallon capacity the pilot, his instructor pilot, and their passenger back taxied approximately 1,300 feet from the departure end of the rwy and started their takeoff. When the aircraft failed to climb after rotation the instructor pilot aborted the takeoff. The aircraft ran off the end of the runway, impacted a fence, and nosed over on its back.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7373H
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503379
- Airframe hours
- 179
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lone Pine Logging Co
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 31, 1986
- Departed
- 005 · Chester, CA
- Destination
- EAT · Wenatchee, WA
- Airport
- O05 · Chester, runway 33, 5,380 × 60 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 260 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SVE, 32 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.