- Date
- May 31, 1993, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Davenport, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2790XCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930531015609A
- Case key
- 27974
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control to avoid the high vegetation. Factors relating to this accident were the failure of the pilot to obtain the climb airspeed and the inadvertent stall/mush.
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
During the takeoff roll from a privately owned dirt airstrip the pilot failed to maintain directional control and the airplane collided with some ice plants. After the collision the pilot initiated an immediate climb to arrest the beginning ground loop. The airplane became airborne, but stalled. The airplane nosed over after it settled into the ice plants.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2790X
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18051590
- Airframe hours
- 3,000
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Boe, Kenneth G.
- Registered owner
- Boe, Kenneth G.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 10, 1993 · 50 hours before
- Destination
- HAF · Half Moon Bay, CA
- Airport
- Private, runway 3, 1,500 × 30 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 984 total · 408 in this make and model · 844 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 7 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N2790X · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.