- Date
- June 9, 1986, 11:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Deshka River, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N31285Bellanca 7GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4670
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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - high vegetationCause
Terrain condition - rough/unevenCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - intentionalCause
Nose over
Analysis
The pilot stated while landing at an unimproved airstrip the aircraft's left main landing gear struck a bush causing the aircraft to ground loop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N31285
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 413-72
- Airframe hours
- 765
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Patrick A. Miller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 14, 1986 · 10 hours before
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 442 total · 358 in this make and model · 358 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRI, 50 nm away