- Date
- July 23, 1985, 10:38 local (18:38 UTC)
- Place
- Port Lions, AK
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N15120Stinson SR6
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4422
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
Preflight planning/preparation - improperCause
Weather evaluation - not followedCause
Vfr flight into imc - performedCause
Weather condition - low ceilingFactor
Weather condition - fogFactor
Loss of control - in flight
Spatial disorientationCause
Lack of total instrument timeCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The pilot continued the flight into less than visual conditions; became spatially disoriented and crashed while the aiplane was out of control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15120
- Reported as
- Stinson SR6
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 9611
- Engine
- Lycoming R-680-B6, 245 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lewis Hall Thompson
- Departed
- Chirikof Island, AK
- Destination
- ADQ · Kodiak Nas, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 84 total · 8 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 100 ft
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ODK, 18 nm away