- Date
- November 12, 1983, 21:00 local (Nov 13, 1983, 06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Nuiqsut, AK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N51418Maule M-4-210C
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19831112073739A
- Case key
- 4186
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft crashed during the approach to land at a fogged in arpt at night. Sometime between 2045 and 2100 yst an acft was heard overflying the arpt at Nuiqsut. The villager who heard the acft stated the noise decreased as though the acft was landing. He then heard a sound described as a piece of metal roofing sliding across gravel. He thought the acft had landed but did not see any lights on the rwy. He also stated he could not see across the rwy due to the fog. According to the passengers who flew outbound to deadhorse with this plt the lights in the cockpit were marginal and the plt used a flashlight some of the time. A couple of times according to a passenger going to deadhorse the acft'dropped' when the plt lost sight of lights on the ground. The plt was alone on the return trip. The plt also had a history of hypertensionand was taking medicine for high blood pressure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N51418
- Reported as
- Maule M-4-210C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1092C
- Airframe hours
- 1,200
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-D, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth H. Andrus
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 14, 1983
- Departed
- SCC · Deadhorse, AK
- Destination
- 10AK · Nuiqsut, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 10AK · Nuiqsut, runway 4, 5,000 × 100 ft, snow
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 12,455 total · 265 in this make and model · 12,425 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 250° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 9 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SCC, 60 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.