- Date
- December 28, 1988, 09:20 local (13:20 UTC)
- Place
- Kivalina, AK
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Emergency descent
- Aircraft
- N9651MCessna 207
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19881228056939A
- Case key
- 5156
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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 air taxi pilot was on a scheduled cargo flight to a remote village in western Alaska when he reportedly had a partial loss of engine power. He said that he was unable to maintain altitude and made a forced landing on a frozen lake. He is uncertain why the engine had a loss of power, and the remoteness of the crash site and extreme winter weather conditions had precluded recovery of the airplane for examination. At the time of the accident, the pilot reported the weather as 4,000' overcast with 8 miles visibility. Other pilots flying in the same general area reported the weather as much worse, bordering on instrument meteorological conditions.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9651M
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 207-0075
- Airframe hours
- 42,856
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Baker Aviation
- Registered owner
- Arctic Eagle, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · December 16, 1988 · 293 hours before
- Departed
- OTZ · Kotzebue, AK
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22,760 total · 8,028 in this make and model · 22,528 as pilot in command · 334 in the last 90 days · 84 in the last 30 days · 33 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 19 °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 N9651M · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.