- Date
- May 13, 1985, 12:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cape Simpson, AK
- Injuries
- 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9943MCessna 207A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19850513047869I
- Case key
- 4430
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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
# 6 Cyl exploded in flt due to connecting rod coming apart. Post-accident insp revealed that nut had back off due to inadequate torque & no cotter key installed in nut.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9943M
- Reported as
- Cessna 207A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700757
- Airframe hours
- 1,858
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Barrow Air, doing business as Barrow Air
- Registered owner
- Edward J. Schollemberg
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1985 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- BRW · Barrow, AK
- Destination
- 10AK · Nuiqsut, 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
- 26
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,800 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 2,400 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BRW, 35 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.
Other investigations on N9943M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.