- Date
- May 7, 1987, 14:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Nightmute, AK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N54265Piper PA-31-350
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870507014099A
- Case key
- 4773
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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 aircraft was destroyed when the aircraft struck a 350 foot high hill along its route. This flight was a part 135 on-demand air taxi cargo flight. Several other air taxi operators and company aircraft elected to cancel their flights. Both ground reports and pilot reports stated the weather in the area of the accident was ceilings below 500 feet and visibility less than one mile.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N54265
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31-350
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 317405213
- Airframe hours
- 3,750
- Engine
- Lycoming TI0-540-J2BD, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Philip Bingman, doing business as Yute Air Service
- Registered owner
- Yute Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 3, 1987 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 7,040 total · 20 in this make and model · 6,531 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 28 °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.