- Date
- June 20, 1987, 13:05 local (20:05 UTC)
- Place
- S. Lake Tahoe, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N1177TCessna TU206C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870620058999A
- Case key
- 25614
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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
Just after lift-off during a downwind departure the pilot decided that the acft was not climbing normally and aborted the take-off at mid-field. The pilot reduced power and extended 40 degrees of flaps. The pilot then decided that he would not be able to reland and added full power and retracted the flaps to 10 degrees. Unable to maintain altitude the acft collided with the terrain aprx one quarter mile from the runway. There were no reported mechanical failures or malfunctions prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1177T
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U206-0986
- Airframe hours
- 3,734
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Howard A. Lipton
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 13, 1986 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- TVL · Lake Tahoe, CA
- Destination
- 061 · Cameron Park, CA
- Airport
- TVL · Lake Tahoe, runway 36, 8,544 × 150 ft, dirt
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 771 total · 200 in this make and model · 471 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TVL, 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.