- Date
- November 13, 1990, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Montague Island, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4756UCessna U-206
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19901113050109A
- Case key
- 5511
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Probable cause
Pilot-in-command's failure to maintain aircraft control during 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
After touchdown on the gravel landing area, the pilot lost control of the airplane. The airplane ran off the departure end into the tundra. At the time of the accident snow covered the last third of the landing area.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4756U
- Reported as
- Cessna U-206
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20605084
- Airframe hours
- 5,611
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jay Hawk Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 23, 1990 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 24,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 20,000 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 16 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.