- Date
- October 3, 1992, 13:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Admiralty Isl, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4755QCessna A185E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 7, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19921003040109A
- Case key
- 5842
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain. A factor related to the accident was: the soft sand.
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 landed a wheel equipped Cessna 185 on a well used beach landing area. As the airplane slowed at the end of its landing roll-out, the pilot initiated a taxi turn. At about that time, the wheels encountered soft sand and the airplane nosed over, damaging the wings and vertical stabilizer.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4755Q
- Reported as
- Cessna A185E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1212
- Airframe hours
- 2,827
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Morton J. Cook
- Registered owner
- Morton J. Cook
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1992 · 143 hours before
- Departed
- JNU · Juneau, AK
- Airport
- No Name Beach Area
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,953 total · 1,698 in this make and model · 1,930 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 39 °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.
Other investigations on N4755Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.