- Date
- August 30, 2020, 13:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lime Village, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N107LCessna A185
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20200830016129A
- Case key
- 101938
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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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of control during the landing flare, which resulted in an impact with trees.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that during the landing flare, with a left quartering crosswind, the airplane drifted to the left. He attempted to correct the drift, however, the left wing impacted trees located parallel to the runway. Subsequently, the airplane spun to the left and came to rest nosed down in the trees. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and left wing. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot reported that he was landing on a heading of about 270° and that the wind was from 240° at about 20 MPH.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N107L
- Reported as
- Cessna A185 (F)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503535
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 2,440.1
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D11B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 2020
- Departed
- SRV · Stoney River, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Handheld GPS, Auto-pilot
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
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 22, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 17,464 total · 1,838 in this make and model · 17,464 as pilot in command · 124 in the last 90 days · 111 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.14 inHg
- Observed at
- PASL, 32 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 8, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.2 MB 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.