- Date
- July 27, 1984, 22:00 local (Jul 28, 1984, 06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Atigun Pass, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N225GNorth American Navion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19840727038779A
- Case key
- 4331
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - downdraftFactor
Forced landing
Aircraft performance,climb capability - exceededFactor
Altitude - inadequateFactor
In-flight planning/decision - inadequateCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Gear extension - not performedCause
Terrain condition - mountainous/hillyFactor
Analysis
The acft encountered a downdraft while flying through a mountain Pass. The terrain would not allow the plt to make a 180DEG turn so he elected to land on a road with the landing gear retracted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N225G
- Reported as
- North American Navion
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4-335
- Airframe hours
- 6,949
- Engine
- Continental E-225, 205 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Horace Drury
- Registered owner
- Horace F. Drury
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 17, 1984 · 51 hours before
- Departed
- Chandlar Lake, AK
- Destination
- BTT · Bettles, 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
- 69
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,468 total · 4,000 in this make and model · 5,380 as pilot in command · 76 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 16 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.