- Date
- September 21, 1984, 15:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mt Plummer, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1688ZCessna 185
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19840921077079A
- Case key
- 4382
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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 plt stated that while landing in a crosswind, he ground looped the airplane. The acft departed the airstrip surface and rolled off the mountainside backward.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1688Z
- Reported as
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1850488
- Airframe hours
- 7,758
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-F, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kelly Vrem
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 29, 1984 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- Kipchuk River, AK
- Destination
- Mt Plummer, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- runway 30, 2,000 × 60 ft, gravel
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,308 total · 126 in this make and model · 2,308 as pilot in command · 125 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1688Z · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.