19831228073149I

Incident · Destroyed

FAA incident report · Cessna 207A · Haines, AK · December 28, 1983

Date
December 28, 1983 · 08:35 local
Place
Haines, AK
Airport
Haines
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
AJAA
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N75826
Reported as
Cessna 207A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,718 total43 in this make and model43 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot was repositioning prop by hand. Engine started with throttle wide open. Aircraft ran into a woods and burned.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS REPOSITIONING PROP BY HAND. ENGINE STARTED WITH THROTTLE WIDE OPEN. AIRCRAFT RAN INTO A WOODS AND BURNED.