- Date
- June 1, 1990, 20:30 local (Jun 2, 1990, 04:30 UTC)
- Place
- Six Mile Lake, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N528LMHelio H-250
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19900601018009A
- Case key
- 5376
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
The pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing. The pilot's lack of experience in the make and model of aircraft was a related factor.
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 plt rprtd that during an apch to land at a remote strip, the acft slowed & 'got behind the power curve.' Subsequently, it hit the ground, which buckled the fuselage. The plt had about 10,000 hrs of flt time, but only 20 hours in heliocourier.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N528LM
- Reported as
- Helio H-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Gay, Kirk D
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- Z41 · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NONE · Pvt Strip
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
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 20 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.