Plane Crash List

Cessna A185F N9682Q

24 July 1982 · 11NM East of Si, Alaska, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 24 July 1982 at about 23:00 local time, a Cessna A185F registered N9682Q, operated by Bellair, was involved in an accident near 11NM East of Si, Alaska, United States. 4 people were on board and 4 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date
at 23:00
Classification
Accident
Location
11NM East of Si, Alaska, United States
Coordinates
56.7305, -134.9991
Aircraft
Cessna A185F
Registration
N9682Q
Category
Airplane
Engines
1
Operator
Bellair
Operating rule
Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
Purpose of flight
Unknown
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Sitka → Warm Springs Ba
Aircraft damage
Destroyed
Weather
VMC
Light
Day
NTSB number
SEA82FA129

People

4 people died.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
4 4 0 0 0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

AFTER DEPARTING SITKA THE ACFT PROCEEDED GENERALLY EAST VIA BLUE LAKE, BLUE LAKE PASS & THE "CUT", A RIDGE ORIENTED NE/SW WITH AN ELEVATION OF APPROXIMATELY 3000 FT MSL. THE IMPACT SITE WAS ABOUT 1 NM SE OF THE CUT ON THE NORTH FACE OF THE VALLEY. BOTH STALL FENCES, LOCATED ON THE UPPER SURFACE OF EACH WING WERE FOUND IMBEDDED IN THE GROUND. THEIR POSITION CORRESPONDED ROUGHLY TO WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN LOCATED HAD THE ACFT FALLEN TO THE GROUND VERTICALLY & IN A RELATIVELY FLAT ATTITUDE. SEVERAL PLTS OPERATING IN THE VICINITY OF THE ACCIDENT SITE & BLUE LAKE PASS WITHIN SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE ACCIDENT REPORTED TURBULENCE & STRONG NORTHWESTERLY WINDS. THERE WERE ALSO SEVERAL REPORTS OF CLOUD SPILLOVER TO THE LEE SIDE OF THE CUT INDICITIVE OF DOWNDRAFTS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

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