- Date
- May 3, 1992, 18:30 local (May 4, 1992, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- Yakutat, AK
- Injuries
- 5 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N69469Cessna 340
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920503016779A
- Case key
- 5652
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Missing aircraft due to undetermined causes.
Analysis
The airplane became missing while on an IFR flight in instrument conditions from Yakutat, Alaska to anchorage, Alaska. There was not further radio communication with the airplane after the pilot reported level at his assigned altitude of 12,000 feet MSL. After listening to FAA air traffic control tapes of communications with the pilot, his wife stated that several minutes after the point which the FAA said was the last transmission from the pilot, she heard her husband say something about '6,000' and 'icing conditions'. An enhancement examination of the tapes by the fbi laboratory failed to confirm this information. Aircraft damage and occupant injuries are presumed.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69469
- Reported as
- Cessna 340
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340-0316
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Roth, Jeffrey H.
- Registered owner
- Roth, Jeffrey H.
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 31, 1991
- Destination
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial
- 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
- 2,334 total · 460 in this make and model · 2,232 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
- Wind
- 140° at 17 knots, gusting 24
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,100 ft broken
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- YAK, 70 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.