- Date
- February 3, 1993, 15:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Keuterville, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2837JCessna 206G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930203001409A
- Case key
- 42983
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate visual lookout. Factors include a power line in the vicinity of the airstrip.
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 low level maneuvering to observe the condition of the remote private airstrip, the aircraft contacted a power line which the pilot had failed to see. Contact with the wire collapsed the nose gear and caused the engine to stop rotating. The pilot therefore elected to execute a forced landing on rough terrain near the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2837J
- Reported as
- Cessna 206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20605935
- Airframe hours
- 2,469
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-M, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Grangeville Air Service
- Registered owner
- Grangeville Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 30, 1992 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- S80 · Grangeville, ID
- Airport
- Spencer Ranch
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 5,000 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.