- Date
- March 19, 1987, 15:20 local (19:20 UTC)
- Place
- Dillingham, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N3439DCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4836
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
As the plt was taking off from a frozen lake with a ski equipped acft, it collided with a snowbank & was damaged. The plt rprtd that he had just landed a few minutes earlier & that the wind was blowing differently when he took off again. After the acdnt, police personnel noted that the plt had an odor of alcohol on his breath, as well as slurred speech & some difficulty in walking. When his breath was checked with an intoximeter 3000 test machine, it showed an alcohol lvl that was equivalent to 0.123% bac. The plts last FAA medical exam was on 10/13/78; his last bfr date wasn't established.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3439D
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 26982
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William R. Ingram
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- 0Z3 · Shannons Pond
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
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 700 in this make and model · 1,100 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg