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Event ANC89LA025

1988-12-21 KOTZEBUE, Alaska, United States Airport · OTZ None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9948M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 207A

Year of manufacture

1982 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-520-F (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19820610

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADE4FB

Registrant of record

GRANT AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE AIR TAXI PILOT STATED THAT HE HAD ENCOUNTERED FREEZING DRIZZLE AND OTHER ICING CONDITIONS PRIOR TO LANDING, ACCUMULATING APPROXIMATELY 3/8' OF ICE ON THE AIRPLANE. HE SAID THAT AS HE BEGAN HIS LANDING FLARE, THE AIRPLANE STALLED, AND HE WAS UNABLE TO RECOVER CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE PRIOR TO STRIKING THE RUNWAY WITH THE RIGHT WING. HE STATED THAT THE ACCIDENT MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED IF HE HAD APPROACHED THE LANDING WITH GREATER CONCERN FOR THE ICE ON THE AIRPLANE, I.E., ADDITIONAL AIRSPEED AND A LOWER FLAP SETTING. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1988_ANC89LA025.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (icing, stall). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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