- Date
- August 31, 1983, 10:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Homer, AK
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69384Cessna C-402B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830831045609A
- Case key
- 4054
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.
Analysis
The acft landed short of the rwy threshold and separated the right main landing gear. The plt was trying to land close to the approach threshold because he was concerned about the length of the rwy. The rwy is a 2500 ft gravel level gradedstrip for a mining camp.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69384
- Reported as
- Cessna C-402B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402B0528
- Airframe hours
- 6,227
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Wilburs Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 29, 1983 · 63 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Johnson Creek, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Johnson Creek, runway 10, 2,500 × 60 ft, gravel
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
- 34
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,534 total · 91 in this make and model · 6,459 as pilot in command · 196 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.