- Date
- June 18, 1993, 15:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Katmai, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7300GCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 2366
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Probable cause
The unsuitable terrain selected by the pilot-in-command. Factor was soft terrain condition.
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 on a gravel strip. He expected the ground to be firm. The nose sank into the soft sand and the airplane nosed down and then dragged its wing.
Factual narrative
On June 20, 1993, at 0600 Alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped Cessna 172 airplane, N7300G, registered to and operated by Steve Reimers, of Iliamna, Alaska, nosed down and dragged a wing during a landing on a gravel strip in the Katmai National Forest, near Illiamna. The personal flight,operating under 14 CFR Part 91, departed Naknek, Alaska, and the destination was the accident site. No flight plan was filed and visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The FAA Commercial Certificated Pilot-in- Command and the two passengers were not injured and the airplane received substantial damage.
According to the Pilot-in-Command, he landed on the gravel beach and the nose wheel sank into the sand. The airplane nosed down and struck its propeller and dragged the wing. The Pilot stated he expected a more firm surface.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7300G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17259000
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Reimers, Steven E.
- Registered owner
- Reimers, Steven E.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1993 · 90 hours before
- Departed
- 5NK · Naknek, AK
- Airport
- Near Katmai
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
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 840 total · 300 in this make and model · 780 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 45 °F