- Date
- February 27, 1986, 16:18 local (20:18 UTC)
- Place
- Ketchikan, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N840SMGulfstream 690C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860227006799A
- Case key
- 40362
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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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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - high windCause
Flight into known adverse weather - selectedCause
Weather condition - turbulence in cloudsCause
Weather condition - gustsCause
Analysis
While at 4700 ft MSL, on a DME hold awaiting clearance for an ils/dme apch, severe turbulence was encountered. The plt was aware of turbulence in the area.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N840SM
- Reported as
- Gulfstream 690C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11700
- Airframe hours
- 1,160
- Engine
- Garrett TPE331-5-251K, 718 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hames, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Hames, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SIT · Sitka, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
N840SMRegistration cancelled May 26, 2020 · Gulfstream AM Corp Comm Div 690CAirframe modelGulfstream AM Corp Comm Div 690CEngine modelAiResearch TPE331-5&6SER
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,024 total · 1,815 in this make and model · 2,724 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 30 knots, gusting 48
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,400 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KTN, 14 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.