- Date
- January 28, 1982, 07:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Sunriver, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4604NCessna 340A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 28, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820128002459A
- Case key
- 72762
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
The instructor was providing dual instruction to a private pilot with no previous time in this nor any multi- engine aircraft. Also, the pirvate pilot had not flown within the previous 90 days. He initiated a takeoff on runway 18 with the wind from 210 degrees at 5 knots. The runway was covered with packed dry snow. It contained ruts and had high snow piled along the edges. While rolling, the aircraft drifted left and the left wing struck a snowbank. The plane then veered off the runway and was substantially damaged.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4604N
- Reported as
- Cessna 340A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340A1016
- Airframe hours
- 688
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-NB, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Daniel C. Pennington
- Registered owner
- Donald A. Pennington
- Departed
- OR35 · Sunriver, OR
- Destination
- Laverne, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- OR35 · Sunriver, runway 18, 4,500 × 55 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
- 29
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,084 total · 50 in this make and model · 1,819 as pilot in command · 65 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 90 °F
- Observed at
- RDM, 19 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.