- Date
- August 8, 1988, 14:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Cooper Landing, AK
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9829MCessna 207A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880808031409A
- Case key
- 5048
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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
After loss of oil pressure then engine failure at 2,800 feet MSL, the pilot elected to make an emergency Landing along the shore line. After the pilot and passengers exited the aircraft, the airplane sank into 100 to 150 feet of water. Neither the airplane nor the engine was recovered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9829M
- Reported as
- Cessna 207A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700741
- Airframe hours
- 2,650
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Trail Lake Flying
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 4, 1988 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- SWD · Seward, AK
- Destination
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 30
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,300 total · 500 in this make and model · 1,175 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 70 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N9829M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.