Gulfstream American AA-5A N26848

Summary

On 12 March 1997 at about 02:30 local time, a Gulfstream American AA-5A registered N26848 was involved in an accident near North Bend, Oregon, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

12 March 1997 at 02:30

Classification

Accident

Location

North Bend, Oregon, United States

Coordinates

43.4806, -124.1590

Aircraft

Gulfstream American AA-5A

Registration

N26848

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Unknown → Yolo County

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Dusk

NTSB number

SEA97LA069

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to perform the proper remedial action of applying carburetor heat/alternate induction air after impact ice accumulated on his aircraft's induction air filter. Factors include intentional flight into known adverse weather (icing conditions), ice formation on the induction air filter and the resultant restriction of the induction air flow, and a body of water at the location where the pilot had to attempt an emergency landing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot flew into forecast icing conditions, where structural ice accumulated on the induction air filter and partially blocked the flow of induction air. He failed to apply carburetor heat, which would have bypassed the obstructed filter, and therefore the aircraft lost power and the pilot had to ditch the aircraft in the waters of Coos Bay.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.