- Date
- August 6, 1992, 11:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Funter Pass, AK
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N94AKCessna 207
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920806029539A
- Case key
- 5766
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 pilots inadequate visual lookout, and his inadvertent VFR flight into IMC conditions. Contributing to the accident were the clouds.
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 reported that while flying through a Pass, in VFR conditions, 'a cloud of undetermined size suddenly and inexplicably appeared in front of me'. He turned to attempt to get out of the cloud, and crashed into the mountainside.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94AK
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700770
- Airframe hours
- 9,280
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Alaska Juneau Aeronautics, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 3, 1992 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- HNH · Hoonah, AK
- Destination
- JNU · Juneau, 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
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 700 in this make and model · 1,863 as pilot in command · 295 in the last 90 days · 99 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 18° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JNU, 11 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.