- Date
- December 11, 1990, 11:50 local (15:50 UTC)
- Place
- Kongikank, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8225JPiper PA-32
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19901211053799A
- Case key
- 5512
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain airspeed during approach resulting in an inadverrtent stall annd uncontrolled descent into the ground.
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 pilot stated that during the approach to the runway he stalled the airplane. The airplane crashed approximately 50 feet off the left side of the runway into a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8225J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 328006065
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Ervin, Terry, doing business as Arctic Circle Air Service, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- DUY · Kongiganak, runway 18, 1,900 × 40 ft, snow
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,300 total · 600 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command · 330 in the last 90 days · 120 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 1 °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.