- Date
- June 29, 1988, 11:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Clear, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6493VHelio H-295
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880629027309A
- Case key
- 5020
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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 commercially certificated 8,000 hour pilot was attempting to land his Helio courier airplane at a remote, private airstrip in Alaska to pick up a non-revenue passenger. He reported that he landed hard, and that the left main gear collapsed. He said that his total flight experience in this type aircraft was only 55 hours, and feels that his lack of experience in type was contributory to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6493V
- Reported as
- Helio H-295
- Category
- Airplane
- Airframe hours
- 3,920
- Engine
- Lycoming GO-480, 295 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rochester Lodge
- Registered owner
- Vixie Rochester/James Metheny
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 15, 1988 · 59 hours before
- Departed
- Rochester Lodge, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Totatlanika
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
- 59
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,000 total · 55 in this make and model · 7,800 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °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 N6493V · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.