- Date
- September 29, 1985, 15:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Glennallen, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5353DCessna 180A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19850929048159A
- Case key
- 4571
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
The pilot stated the aircraft left wing was raised by a gust of wind. The aircraft accelerated rapidly in a si deways attitude to the right. The wind gust encountered and the fact the landing roll was almost completed CA used a situation that was beyond the capability of the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5353D
- Reported as
- Cessna 180A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 50242
- Airframe hours
- 6,703
- Engine
- Continental O-470K, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth H. Bunch
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 23, 1985 · 62 hours before
- Departed
- Sleet Creek, AK
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- GKN · Gulkana
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 90,000 total · 5,000 in this make and model · 30,000 as pilot in command · 450 in the last 90 days · 280 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 22 knots, gusting 38
- Visibility
- 160 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.