- Date
- September 7, 1982, 00:00 local (08:00 UTC)
- Place
- Missing Acft, AK
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N2194ZCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 69211
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.
Missing aircraft
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Analysis
Aircraft disappeared on this flight of 9/7/82. No flight plan was filed but it is believed pilot was on round robin from lake hood to two lakes and return.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2194Z
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18051294
- Airframe hours
- 6,200
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 265 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert E. Brooks Jr.
- Registered owner
- Robert E. Brooks Jr.
- Departed
- Lake Hood, AK
- Destination
- Two Lakes, AK
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
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 470 in this make and model · 2,330 as pilot in command · 70 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft overcast
Other investigations on N2194Z · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.