- Date
- July 4, 1985, 10:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Jakolok Bay, AK
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1686UCessna 207
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19850704031509A
- Case key
- 4517
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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.
Undershoot
Proper touchdown point - misjudgedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
Plt landed short of gravel beach and substantially damaged airplane on large rocks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1686U
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700286
- Airframe hours
- 5,700
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Cook Inlet Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · June 1, 1985
- Departed
- HOM · Homer, AK
- Destination
- 4Z9 · Jakolof Bay, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 4Z9 · Jakolof Bay, runway 1, 1,200 × 40 ft, gravel
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,600 total · 14,000 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F
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 N1686U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.