- Date
- August 13, 1986, 05:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place
- Prairie City, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2696UCessna 340
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860813040019A
- Case key
- 40474
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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 plt was attempting to land the acft on an unlit airstrip during dusk conditions. While attempting to align the acft with the center of the 30 foot wide airstrip the plt heard the stall warning horn sounding. During an attempted go around an inadvertent stall was entered and the acft was too low to recover.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2696U
- Reported as
- Cessna 340
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340A0780
- Airframe hours
- 2,733
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-NB, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tango Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 7, 1986 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- BKE · Baker, OR
- Destination
- OR17 · Prairie City, OR
- Airport
- OR17 · Oxbow Rnach Airport
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,287 total · 184 in this make and model · 3,067 as pilot in command · 315 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.