20111209029329I

Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-350 · Eureka, CA · December 9, 2011

Date
December 9, 2011 · 09:00 local
Place
Eureka, CA
Airport
Eureka
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
JIKA
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N4098A
Reported as
Piper PA-31-350
Reported engine
Lycoming TI0-540 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
670 total302 in this make and model121 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.

A ameriflight (jika) cargo pilot privacy data omitted was flying solo from ukiah CA (uki) to Eureka CA (eka) and fell asleep or lost consciousness. Pilot woke up 35 miles west of fortuna VOR over the pacific ocean and turned around. Pilot landed at eka. No indication of hypoxia or carbon monoxide poisoning and no drug test taken. Pilot was fired from ameriflight. Contact with AWP-300 office of aerospace medicine, flight surgeon privacy data omitted office. Contact made with pilot to ground himself from flying until further notice and until he receives letter from privacy data omitted.

As the FAA filed it

A AMERIFLIGHT (JIKA) CARGO PILOT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WAS FLYING SOLO FROM UKIAH CA (UKI) TO EUREKA CA (EKA) AND FELL ASLEEP OR LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. PILOT WOKE UP 35 MILES WEST OF FORTUNA VOR OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND TURNED AROUND. PILOT LANDED AT EKA. NO INDICATION OF HYPOXIA OR CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING AND NO DRUG TEST TAKEN. PILOT WAS FIRED FROM AMERIFLIGHT.CONTACT WITH AWP-300 OFFICE OF AEROSPACE MEDICINE, FLIGHT SURGEON ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ OFFICE. CONTACT MADE WITH PILOT TO GROUND HIMSELF FROM FLYING UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AND UNTIL HE RECEIVES LETTER FROM ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

Other reports on N4098A · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.