# NTSB SEA86LA206: Cessna 340, N2696U, Prairie City, OR, August 13, 1986

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: August 13, 1986, 05:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place: Prairie City, OR
- Coordinates: 44.379215, -118.640983 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.3792&lon=-118.6410&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 40474
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=SEA86LA206
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/40474/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/SEA86LA206

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Loss of control - in flight, go-around (vfr)
  - light condition - dawn (contributing factor)
  - stall - inadvertent, pilot in command (cause)
- In flight collision with terrain/water, descent - uncontrolled

## 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](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N2696U), registered now, S/N 340A0780 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 340
- Registry model: [Cessna 340A](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-340a) (registry code 2076405) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental TSIO-520 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-520-series) (registry code 17040, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 340A0780
- Airframe hours: 2733
- Engines: 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

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 25; 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19860813040019A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19860813040019A), Aug 13, 1986: Cessna 340A, Prairie City, OR, Substantial damage. The aircraft stalled and landed hard on a dusk approach to an unlit runway.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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