# NTSB ANC84FA013: Cessna 206, N9975, Kenai, AK, October 31, 1983

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Field investigation · Final report
- Date: October 31, 1983
- Place: Kenai, AK
- Coordinates: 60.659339, -150.899887 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=60.6593&lon=-150.8999&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Unknown](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/990) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 4 fatal
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office: Alaska Regional Office
- NTSB case key (mKey): 4185
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ANC84FA013
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/4185/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC84FA013

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Missing aircraft, unknown
  - reason for occurrence undetermined (cause)

## Analysis

THE ACFT DEPARTED NONDALTON, AK AT APRX 1135 YST ON A FLT TO KENAI, AK. AT APRX 1215 YST, THE PLT REPORT THAT HE WAS OVER WEST FORELANDS & REQUESTED THE KENAI WX. ABOUT 4 MIN LATER, HE REQUESTED A DF STEER TO THE KENAI ARPT. A SHORT TIME LATER, RADIO CONTACT WITH THE PLT WAS LOST. THE ACFT'S LAST KNOWN POSITION WAS 13 MI NORTH NORTHWEST OF KENAI, ABOUT 3 MI FROM THE KENAI SHORELINE. AN EXTENSIVE SEARCH WAS MADE, BUT NEITHER THE ACFT NOR THE OCCUPANTS WERE FOUND. THE ACFT WAS PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN DESTROY & THE OCCUPANTS WERE PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN FATALLY INJURED.

## Aircraft

- Registration: N9975 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 206
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: U20603744
- Engines: CONTINENTAL IO-520 300 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: In-Flight
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Registered owner: Dewey E. Bailey
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Utility
- Departed: 5NN, NONDALTON, AK
- Destination: ENA, KENAI, AK
- Flight plan: VFR

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 43; private; airplane ratings: single-engine land, single-engine sea; medical: class 2, valid medical--no waivers/lim.; seat: left

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: calm
- Visibility: 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: 1,500 ft broken
- Temperature: 34 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter: 29.00 inHg
- Observed at: ENA, 13 nm away

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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