Cessna 182F N3186U

Summary

On 29 June 1997 at about 17:12 local time, a Cessna 182F registered N3186U, operated by Monte O. Parrish, was involved in an accident near Talkeetna, Alaska, United States. 4 people were on board and 4 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

29 June 1997 at 17:12

Classification

Accident

Location

Talkeetna, Alaska, United States

Coordinates

62.4500, -149.7896

Aircraft

Cessna 182F

Registration

N3186U

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Monte O. Parrish

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Anchorage → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ANC97FAMS1

4 people died.

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

The pilot and 3 passengers departed on a personal sight-seeing flight around Mt. McKinley and did not return. An aerial search failed to locate the airplane, and it is presumed to have crashed in remote mountainous terrain. A flight plan was not filed. Radar track data was located from an aircraft that progressed from the area of the departure airport toward Mt. McKinley. It is unknown if the radar track was the accident airplane, but no other radar data matching the anticipated flight profile was located. The radar track terminated at an elevation of 14,400 feet mean sea level in the area of the East Buttress of Mt. McKinley. The search for the airplane was suspended 8 days after the airplane departed, and after 528 hours of search flight activity. Search personnel determined the search clues, and radar track profile, were consistent with the most likely flight profile of the accident airplane. Aircraft damage and injuries are presumed.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.