- Date
- June 9, 2002, 16:40 local (Jun 10, 2002, 00:40 UTC)
- Place
- Hope, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8623JCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 25, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA-AL-ANC FSDO 03
- FAA report
- 20020609017369A
- Case key
- 54889
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, which resulted in a collision with a ditch. A contributing factor in the accident was the presence of a ditch in the landing area.
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.
Analysis
The private certificated pilot was landing toward the south on a remote grass-covered area. During the landing rollout, the airplane struck a drainage ditch. The airplane nosed over and received damage to the wings, fuselage, and empennage.
Factual narrative
On June 9, 2002, about 1640 Alaska daylight time, a wheel-equipped Cessna 150 airplane, N8623J, sustained substantial damage after colliding with a ditch during landing at a remote area, about 13 miles southwest of Hope, Alaska. The airplane was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) local area personal flight when the accident occurred. The airplane was operated by the pilot. The private certificated pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The flight originated at Merrill Field, Anchorage, Alaska, about 1630.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC), on June 10, the pilot reported that he was landing on a grass-covered area near the Chickaloon Flats of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The pilot said he was landing toward the south, and during the landing rollout, the airplane struck a drainage ditch. The airplane nosed over and received damage to the wings, fuselage, and empennage. The pilot said the wind conditions at the time were 360 degrees at 10 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8623J
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15066523
- Airframe hours
- 3,687
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth L. Vohs
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 19, 2001 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- PAMR · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Hope, AK
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
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 500 in this make and model · 1,100 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 27, 2002, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 375 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.