- Date
- July 12, 1983, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sleetmute, AK
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N70059Cessna 185
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830712036059A
- Case key
- 4144
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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
During an upstream takeoff toward a fish weir, the acft did not attain enough altitude to clear the fish weir and collided with the top of the weir. The acft contacted the water in a nose low attitude and the acft nosed over onto its back.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70059
- Reported as
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18501932
- Airframe hours
- 7,798
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Bush Air Taxi
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 31, 1983 · 82 hours before
- Departed
- Holitna River, 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
- 34
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,484 total · 125 in this make and model · 2,364 as pilot in command · 365 in the last 90 days · 180 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 30 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.