Lake 4-200 N1108L

24 August 1980 · Hewitt Lake, Alaska, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 24 August 1980 at about 18:45 local time, a Lake 4-200 registered N1108L was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Hewitt Lake, Alaska, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 24 August 1980 at 18:45
Classification: Accident
Location: Hewitt Lake, Alaska, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lake 4-200
Registration: N1108L
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Anchorage, Ak → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2637

People

1 person died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	1	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

DIVERS STATED PLT'S SEAT BELT NOT BUCKLED.PATHOLOGIST RPRTD PLT HAD HEAD INJURIES, DROWNED.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-2637, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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