ANC86FA032 · Cessna 206
Cessna 206 · Accident: missing aircraft
From King Salmon Airport (AKN) to Merrill Field (MRI)
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's location. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC86FA032
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Cessna 206
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 206
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N8022Z
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From King Salmon Airport (AKN), KING SALMON, AKTo Merrill Field (MRI), Anchorage, AK
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Unknown
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Missing aircraft
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Light condition › Dark night
- Pilot in command › Flight into known adverse weather, intentional
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
- Weather condition › Fog
- Weather condition › Low ceiling
- Weather condition › Snow
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Anchorage, AK, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT WAS USING THE AIRCRAFT TO COMMUTE ON A WEEKLY BASIS BETWEEN HIS RESIDENCE IN ANCHORAGE AND TO THE KING SALMON AREA. THE PILOT RECEIVED SEVERAL PREFLIGHT AND INFLIGHT WEATHER BRIEFINGS. DURING THE BRIEFINGS THE FLIGHT SERVICE STATION STATED THAT VFR WAS NOT RECOMMENDED. AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT THE WEATHER WAS IFR WITH BLOWING SNOW. BOTH THE PILOT AND AIRCRAFT WERE NOT LOCATED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC86FA032
- Event ID
- 20001213X32790
- Case number
- ANC86FA032
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3a88634d5ca3a16e714a1a0fac00cd8a94fa80df8cd15c1f0ea1e593b624dc7f; retrieved 2026-09-21T04:39:47.565Z.