- Date
- August 26, 1992, 15:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fairbanks, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N711FYCessna 206
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920826033179A
- Case key
- 5792
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
Proper touchdown point was not attained by the pilot. Factors related to the accident were: the tailwind and the improper approach procedure used by the pilot, an inadequate background check of pilot in hiring by company/mgmt, inadequate training and check of pilot by company/mgmt.
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 experienced transport category pilot, with no recent experience in light utility airplanes, landed long with a tailwind on mountainous gravel runway. The steep drop off with rising terrain ahead prevented a go around. The pilot elected to ground loop and substantially damaged the wing and landing gear. The airplane was not recovered after 5 months due to area remoteness. The company was engaged in drum fuel transport to remote strips, and required no check out in type aircraft, and performed no background check of experience.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N711FY
- Reported as
- Cessna 206
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0459
- Airframe hours
- 11,378
- Engine
- Continental IO540-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roger And Linda Brooks
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 1900 · 90 hours before
- Departed
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Destination
- Buzby Mine, AK
- Airport
- Buzby Mine Strip, runway 4, 1,500 × 75 ft, dirt
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
- 60
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 32,000 total · 50 in this make and model · 31,000 as pilot in command · 70 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 0.6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.