- Date
- September 5, 1985, 16:36 local (Sep 6, 1985, 00:36 UTC)
- Place
- Scammon Bay, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N65798Cessna C-172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4431
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
The pilot elected to takeoff from the taxiway because it aligned into the wind. After takeoff and accelerating to climb airspeed, the airplane's controls felt mushy and the pilot elected to land on the road/taxiway. Prior to touchdown, a gust of wind forced the pilot to land in a swampy lake causing the airplane to nose over. There is no weather reporting facility located at Scammon Bay, Alaska.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65798
- Reported as
- Cessna C-172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275894
- Airframe hours
- 1,885
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-025, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Village Aviation, doing business as Camai Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 4, 1985 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- SCM · Scammon Bay, AK
- Destination
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SCM · Scammon Bay
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,326 total · 519 in this make and model · 321 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 35 knots, gusting 40
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 43 °F