- Date
- November 16, 1982, 15:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Cove, OR
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8123GCessna U206
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 16, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821116066009A
- Case key
- 70363
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
Pilot landed on icy runway and slid 1200 feet into the river.
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.
Overrun
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - icyFactor
Unsuitable terrain or takeoff/landing/taxi area - selectedCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8123G
- Reported as
- Cessna U206
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20603770
- Airframe hours
- 1,526
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Levern Draper
- Registered owner
- Russell Kilpatrick
- Departed
- La Grande, OR
- Destination
- Minam Lodge, OR
- Airport
- Minam Lodge Private, runway 34, 2,000 × 0 ft, grass/turf
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
- 67
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,776 total · 362 in this make and model · 1,669 as pilot in command · 133 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.