- Date
- May 9, 1989, 23:15 local (May 10, 1989, 07:15 UTC)
- Place
- Togiak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2747XCessna 180H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report April 19, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19890509014089A
- Case key
- 5192
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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Probable cause
Improper planning/decision by the pilot. Contributing factors were: light conditions at dusk, an unsafe/hazardous condition (drum that someone had left near the landing area).
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.
On ground/water collision with object
Unsafe/hazardous conditionFactor
Light condition - duskFactor
Planning/decision - improperCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2747X
- Reported as
- Cessna 180H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18051547
- Airframe hours
- 1,750
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sorensen, Ralph
- Registered owner
- Sorensens Lighterage Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 4, 1989 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- DLG · Dillingham, AK
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 1,400 in this make and model · 3,500 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 30 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.