- Date
- August 10, 1991, 10:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Angoon, AK
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N715VCessna 185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19910810033239A
- Case key
- 5596
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain a proper descent rate. Contributing to the accident was pilot's intentional abrupt maneuvering at a low altitude and the flaps that retracted a knotch.
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 while in a low altitude steep descending turn from base leg to final approach, the flaps retracted, and the engine seemed to sputter. The airplane landed hard in the shallow water, then ran up on the rocks and nosed over. A post impact fire destroyed the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N715V
- Reported as
- Cessna 185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 185-02674
- Airframe hours
- 8,220
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Douglas D. Riemer
- Registered owner
- Douglas D. Riemer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 31, 1991 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- PSG · Petersburg, AK
- Flight plan
- 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
- 30
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,769 total · 1,891 in this make and model · 3,629 as pilot in command · 324 in the last 90 days · 137 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.