- Date
- June 26, 1984, 16:51 local (23:51 UTC)
- Place
- Reno, NV
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6480HCessna 207A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840626030329A
- Case key
- 39948
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 acft went off the rwy during a landing and the plt attempted a go-around with full flaps. The acft collided with a ditch and an irrigation pipe between the rwy and the taxi-way. The plt did not file an accident report. The accident information was received from FAA inspectors. The acft was on a no flt plan x-country.
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
- N6480H
- Reported as
- Cessna 207A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700540
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rodney E. Busk
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- TVL · S. Lake Tahoe, CA
- Destination
- RNO · Reno, NV
- Airport
- RNO · Cannon International Arpt, runway 16L, 5,592 × 75 ft, concrete
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RNO
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 N6480H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.