- Date
- January 4, 1988, 17:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Akiachak, AK
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N73036Cessna 207
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880104000909A
- Case key
- 4978
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Terrain condition - icyFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Analysis
The pilot stated that during the landing roll on the ice covered runway, he lost control causing the plane to exit the departure end of the runway into a snow bank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73036
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700555
- Airframe hours
- 4,826
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Yute Air Service
- Registered owner
- Phillip L. Bingham
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 10, 1987 · 26 hours before
- Departed
- Tuluksak, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 2-13 · Akiachak, runway 28, 1,900 × 100 ft, gravel
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
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,750 total · 188 in this make and model · 1,535 as pilot in command · 213 in the last 90 days · 140 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 30 °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.