- Date
- March 11, 1983, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pedro Bay, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8940NPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830311007289A
- Case key
- 4106
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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 collided with trees during an attempted go-around after an aborted landing on a frozen lake. The pilot landed toward the village and found the braking action on the snow covered ice was non existent. A go-around was attempted but not enough altitude was obtained before reaching the shoreline and the trees. The lake ice had been selected for landingbecause of the rwys poor condition.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8940N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-40738
- Airframe hours
- 4,362
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Oren B. Hudson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,183 total · 522 in this make and model · 936 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Temperature
- 25 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.