- Date
- May 8, 1985, 14:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Candle, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9140MCessna C-206
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19850508016049A
- Case key
- 4490
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.
Loss of engine power(total) - mech failure/malf
Engine assembly,bearing - failure,totalCause
Forced landing
Hard landing
Terrain condition - snow coveredCause
Nose gear collapsed
Terrain condition - rough/unevenFactor
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Analysis
The acft made a hard landing on ice after eng failure resulted in a forced landing. The plt had shut down the eng after loss of oil pressure and a rise in oil temperature occurred. Post accident investigation showed a failure of a rod bearing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9140M
- Reported as
- Cessna C-206
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U-20601540
- Airframe hours
- 3,530
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- James Rood
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OTZ · Kotzebue, AK
- Destination
- Buckland, AK
- Flight plan
- Unknown
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 5,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OTZ, 52 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.