- Date
- June 2, 1992, 16:25 local (Jun 3, 1992, 00:25 UTC)
- Place
- Suckling Hills, AK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N3550TTaylorcraft F-19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920602017919A
- Case key
- 5735
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain airspeed and stalled the airplane. Contributing to the accident was the rising terrain.
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
Just after taking off from a remote area strip into rising terrain, the airplane began a turn then stalled and crashed. The airplane was on a search mission for a missing airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3550T
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft F-19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- F-009
- Airframe hours
- 1,650
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Keith E. Nelson
- Registered owner
- Keith E. Nelson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1991 · 66 hours before
- Destination
- CKU · Cordova, 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
- 24
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 520 total · 423 in this make and model · 469 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CDV, 75 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.