- Date
- August 5, 1983, 05:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kenai, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24TCessna 336
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830805039169A
- Case key
- 4151
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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
According to the pilot winds were gusty during landing. Upon landing the right wing collided with some trees and pulled the acft to the right into the trees. The acft turned on its back just prior to stopping.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24T
- Reported as
- Cessna 336
- Category
- Airplane
- Airframe hours
- 1,600
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-A, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- 1
- Registered owner
- James A. Kizer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 1983 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- 5KS · Kasilof, AK
- Airport
- ENA · Kenai
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,110 total · 60 in this make and model · 1,100 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ENA, 19 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.