- Date
- June 16, 1982, 15:01 local (23:01 UTC)
- Place
- Near Port Heide, AK
- Injuries
- 10 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N525NDe Havilland DHC-6-100
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 16, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 71915
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
Analysis
While in cruise flight, the left engine surged twice and the pilot observed fire emitting from the exhaust and cowling. After securing the engine and discharging the fire bottle without effect, the pilot made a precautionary landing at Port heiden airport. Investigation revealed that the engine had experienced a seizure of the planetary "x" gear. The mode of failure of the subject gear was not identified.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N525N
- Reported as
- De Havilland DHC-6-100
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 92
- Airframe hours
- 23,287
- Engine
- P & W PT6 A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Sea Airmotive, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Sea Airmotive, Inc.
- Departed
- AKN · King Salmon, AK
- Destination
- Z79 · Chignik, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 36
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 9,050 total · 150 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken