- Date
- September 23, 1982, 16:30 local (Sep 24, 1982, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Nenana, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3974GCessna U206
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 23, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19820923050559A
- Case key
- 71960
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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Landing gear,steering system - overloadCause
Landing gear,steering system - failure,totalCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledFactor
Directional control - not possibleFactor
Nose down
Analysis
During touchdown the nose wheel steering collar (Cessna p/n 1243811-6) failed & the acft swerved left turning over onto the nose & right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3974G
- Reported as
- Cessna U206
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0974
- Airframe hours
- 4,349
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Cyril D. Hetherington
- Registered owner
- Cyril D. Hetherington
- Departed
- C · Manley Hot Spri, AK
- Destination
- C · Nenana, AK
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- ENN · Nenana Municipal, runway 3, 5,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,464 total · 900 in this make and model · 3,433 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft overcast
- Observed at
- ENN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.