- Date
- September 14, 1983, 08:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Quilcene, WA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9408KStinson 108-2
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 39610
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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 acft collided with trees at the 2800 ft level of a mountain after the pilot encountered IMC weather. The weather wasvmc in the area but the mountain ranges had been forecast to be obscured in weather. The pilot had received a weather briefing. The acft progressed through the trees until ground contact and was destroyed. The pilot was seriously injured. No flt plan was filed. The flt had been enroute about 30 minutes before it crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9408K
- Reported as
- Stinson 108-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2408
- Airframe hours
- 4,037
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4-165-B3, 165 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Larry L. Rocho
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 8, 1982 · 9 hours before
- Departed
- WA31 · Langley, WA
- Destination
- PNT · Bremerton, WA
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 108 total · 13 in this make and model · 44 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 45 °F