- Date
- March 15, 1987, 16:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Skwentna, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9618HCessna 185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 9, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870315007979A
- Case key
- 4835
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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
While taxiing on skis at excess speed, the pilot lost control of the airplane in a crosswind. The landing gear box failed causing substantial damage to the airframe and propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9618H
- Reported as
- Cessna 185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503454
- Airframe hours
- 953
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ray Sanford Dickey, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 13, 1986 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- AK83 · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Fish Lakes, AK
- Airport
- SKW · Skwentna
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,604 total · 968 in this make and model · 3,308 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 10 knots, gusting 12
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 28 °F
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 N9618H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.