- Date
- March 26, 1989, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Everett, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6166NCessna 185
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890326025209A
- Case key
- 40991
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the tailwheel aircraft during landing roll.
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
During landing roll, the pilot lost directional control and groundlooped the airplane. The pilot did not submit an acc report.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6166N
- Reported as
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504302
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- All Alaskan Seafoods, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PAE · Everett, WA
- Airport
- PAE · Payne Field, runway 16R, 9,010 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,200 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 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.
Other investigations on N6166N · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.