- Date
- September 18, 1985, 13:03 local (21:03 UTC)
- Place
- Chuathbaluk, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N91157Cessna 207
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19850918048729A
- Case key
- 4567
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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 acft made an emergency landing in a river after an eng failure due to fuel exhaustion. The plt stated that he could not determine exact fuel quantity prior to takeoff due to a broken cap on right fuel tank. The operator told the plt to fly the acft despite his knowledge of the broken fuel cap and the uncertain fuel quantity.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91157
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700096
- Airframe hours
- 5,417
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Ronald Peltola, doing business as Bush Air, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Airparts, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 1, 1984 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- RDV · Red Devil, AK
- Destination
- ANI · Aniak, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,451 total · 35 in this make and model · 27 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 100 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
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 N91157 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.