- Date
- June 23, 1989, 13:40 local (21:40 UTC)
- Place
- Tuntutuliak, AK
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N15306Piper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19890623017289A
- Case key
- 5205
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
Failure of the engine crankshaft. A contributing factor to aircraft damage was a mud (dirt) bank which the aircraft hit during the emergency landing.
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
Before reaching the destn, the eng began running rough, then lost power. Subsequently, the acft hit a mud bank & was damaged as the plt was landing on tundra about 1 mi from the arpt. An exam of the eng revealed the crankshaft had failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15306
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 327340034
- Airframe hours
- 4,372
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Seagull Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 14, 1989 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,635 total · 710 in this make and model · 1,564 as pilot in command · 270 in the last 90 days · 128 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 45 °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.