- Date
- January 11, 1985, 19:04 local (23:04 UTC)
- Place
- Nome, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7396UCessna C-207
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19850111002109A
- Case key
- 4462
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
Plt obtained a special VFR to land at Nome arpt. Plt saw apch lights and made a left circle to line up with rwy. Plt stated, ceiling was 300 ft AGL, low visibility and freezing drizzle was present. Aprx 3/8 inch of ice was on airframe and windshield. Plt stated, 'I failed to maintain sufficient altitude... .' Acft contacted level terrain aprx 5 miles west of the arpt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7396U
- Reported as
- Cessna C-207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700438
- Airframe hours
- 4,426
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Foster Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 11, 1984 · 44 hours before
- Departed
- SHH · Shishmarek, AK
- Destination
- OME · Nome, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OME · Nome
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
- 50
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11,570 total · 4,215 in this make and model · 11,300 as pilot in command · 70 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 80° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 300 ft broken
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OME, 5 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 N7396U · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.