- Date
- August 5, 1985, 12:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Eureka, AK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N704JNCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19850805038619A
- Case key
- 4538
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 control - in flight
Airspeed - excessiveCause
Clearance - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - dirt bank/rising embankment
Nose over
Analysis
Plt approach strip high and fast, struck a dirt berm and turned over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N704JN
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078649
- Airframe hours
- 3,479
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Alaska Air Academy
- Registered owner
- Selvin C. Gettings
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 16, 1985 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- GKN · Gulkana, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- E37 · Eureka, runway 3, 2,600 × 60 ft, gravel
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 total · 25 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Observed at
- GKN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.