- Date
- May 11, 1992, 19:30 local (May 12, 1992, 03:30 UTC)
- Place
- Beluga, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6202GCessna C-150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920511016759A
- Case key
- 5724
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 improper inflt decision by the pilot to land on a remote, private, snow covered airstrip. A factor relating to the accident was the soft, wet snow on the strip.
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 decided to land on a remote, private, snow covered airstrip while on a local personal sightseeing flt. The acft nose landing gear sank into six inch deep soft, wet snow during landing roll and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6202G
- Reported as
- Cessna C-150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071702
- Airframe hours
- 4,064
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wilbur, Joseph, doing business as Flight Safety, Inc
- Registered owner
- Wilbur, Joseph
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 20, 1992 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Z22 · Beluga
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 305 total · 84 in this make and model · 230 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 80 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 30 °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.