- Date
- October 30, 2026, 10:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Kodiak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 serious
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9863QCessna A185F
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 204092
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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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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9863Q
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Vertigo Air Taxi
- Registered owner
- Wattum Investments LLC
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.
Weather
- Wind
- 210° at 7 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- 41 nm away