- Date
- August 31, 1984, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kiana, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N56490Maule M-6
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19840831045519A
- Case key
- 4349
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.
Analysis
The acft made a forced landing in the kobuk sand dunes after the engine quit during cruise flt. The plt reported that the engine quit, sputtered once, picked up RPM and then quit completely. The prop windmilled until ground contact. In attempting to restart, the plt switched the fuel selector to both, turned the boost pump on and pushed the mixture tofull rich. The engine did not restart. After the landing the plt hired a mechanic to check the engine. The mechanic was unable to find any mechanical discrepancies. The plt thought it might be water in the fuel. The acft reportedly had 43 gallons of fuel on board at departure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N56490
- Reported as
- Maule M-6
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7405C
- Airframe hours
- 113
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert Veazie
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1984 · 113 hours before
- Departed
- DCK · Dahl Creek, AK
- Destination
- OTZ · Kotzebue, 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,709 total · 800 in this make and model · 1,709 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 106 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 19 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.