- Date
- August 27, 1982, 09:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Healy, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4830UCessna TU206
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 27, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19820827045509A
- Case key
- 70997
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.
Hard landing
Weather condition - unfavorable windFactor
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Flare - improperCause
Other gear collapsed
Landing gear - overload
Landing gear - failure,total
Nose over
Analysis
Aircraft made hard landing at mining airstrip after encountering a strong gust of wind. The wheel landing gear collapsed& the aircraft slid about 100 ft on the float keels before flipping over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4830U
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20605121
- Airframe hours
- 868
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Leonard Kragnus
- Registered owner
- Leonard Kragnus
- Departed
- Healy, AK
- Destination
- Healy, AK
- Airport
- Mine Strip, runway 31, 1,800 × 100 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 1,868 in this make and model · 5,000 as pilot in command · 79 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Temperature
- 140 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.