- Date
- October 25, 1988, 21:00 local (Oct 26, 1988, 05:00 UTC)
- Place
- Soldotna, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N4850FCessna TU206A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19881025047849A
- Case key
- 5144
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 ATP certificated pilot and his two passengers were returning from a hunting trip when the turbocharged Cessna 206 caught fire soon after landing. The pilot stated that the engine quit during the landing roll and an attempt at restarting the engine as the airplane cleared the runway was unsuccessful. Shortly after the restart attempt, a fire started in the engine compartment. No fire extinguisher was onboard the airplane at the time that the fire started and the fire was not extinguished until local fire fighters arrived.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4850F
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U2060550
- Airframe hours
- 16,900
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kakeldey, Ronald O.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 29, 1987 · 1,370 hours before
- Departed
- Spiridon Lake, AK
- Airport
- SXQ · Soldotna, runway 7, 5,000 × 130 ft, asphalt
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
- 49
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,700 total · 150 in this make and model · 1,350 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ENA, 9 nm away
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 N4850F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.