- Date
- January 21, 1990, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Willow, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1802RCessna 185
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 18, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19900121001469A
- Case key
- 5337
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
Selection of an unsuitable landing area (unsuitable terrain) by the pilot. Factors related to the accident were: deep snow on the runway and failure of the flight service station (fss) specialist to inform the pilot that the runway was closed to wheel equipped aircraft.
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 wheel equipped airplane nosed over after landing on a runway covered with about two feet of unplowed snow. A local NOTAM that closed the runway to wheeled airplanes had not been given to the pilot during his preflight weather briefing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1802R
- Reported as
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18502518
- Airframe hours
- 1,440
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rick D. Richter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 11, 1990 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- Z41 · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- Z22 · Willow, runway 31, 4,600 × 105 ft, gravel
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 675 in this make and model · 2,400 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point -0 °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 N1802R · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.