- Date
- August 30, 1982, 14:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Egegik, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N1084XPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 30, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19820830042769A
- Case key
- 70557
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
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Weather condition - rainFactor
Weather condition - unfavorable windFactor
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Stall/mush - not correctedCause
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Analysis
After lift-off from a soft muddy strip the plt encountered a 30 knot crosswind eddying behind a building he was passing & settled into alder trees beyond the departure end of the strip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1084X
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 327540140
- Airframe hours
- 7,865
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Peninsula Airways, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Peninsula Airways, Inc.
- Departed
- Egegik, AK
- Destination
- C · King Salmon, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Bartlett'S Strip, runway 11, 1,200 × 0 ft, dirt
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
- 26
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,013 total · 97 in this make and model · 2,974 as pilot in command · 381 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 122 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.