- Date
- November 4, 1982, 13:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Nelson Lagoon, AK
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4752CFairchild C-82
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 4, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19821104059749A
- Case key
- 71959
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.
Undershoot
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The acft landed short damaging the right boom & horizontal stabilizer. The rwy threshold is marked by light green reflective threshold markers & two red & white striped touchdown panels.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4752C
- Reported as
- Fairchild C-82
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 48-581
- Airframe hours
- 18,487
- Engine
- P & W R2800-85AM, 1,800 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Northern Air Cargo, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Northern Air Cargo, Inc.
- Departed
- C · Jensens Strip, AK
- Destination
- C · Nelson Lagoon, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Z73 · Nelson Lagoon, runway 26, 3,100 × 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 26,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.