ANC83LA169 · Cessna C-152
Cessna C-152 · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water while maneuvering
From Z-15 · BIRCHWOOD, AK to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC83LA169
- 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
- 0 · 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna C-152
- Aircraft type
- Cessna C-152
- 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
- N94547
- Operator
- Roger Boardman
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Z-15 · BIRCHWOOD, AKTo not recorded
- 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
- Maneuvering · turn to reverse direction
- 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
- In flight collision with terrain/water
- 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
- Aircraft performance, turn capability › Exceeded
- Pilot in command(cfi) › In-flight planning/decision, poor
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Judgment, poor
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Overconfidence in personal ability
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH RISING TERRAIN WHILE MANEUVERING DURING A TRAINING FLT AT AN ALT OF 3000 FT MSL. THE ACFT WAS DESTROYED AND THE 2 OCCUPANTS SERIOUSLY INJURED. THE CFI STATED THAT THERE WERE NO MECHANICAL MALFUNCTIONS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT AND THE ACFT CRASHED DURING A TURN IN RISING TERRAIN. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE ACFT WAS WITHIN WEIGHT AND C.G. LIMITS. THE ACFT LEFT ON 9/10 AT 1515 HOURS AND CRASHED AT 1600 HOURS. IT WAS REPORTED MISSING AT 1624 ON 9/11 BY THE CFI'S SISTER. NO FLT PLAN WAS FILED SO FSS HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE FLT. ELMENDORF RCC DIDRECEIVE AN ELT SIGNAL PRIOR TO THE SISTERS REPORT. CAP WAS NOTIFIED AT 1750 ON 9/11. THE ACFT WAS FOUND BY A CIVILIAN ACFT AT 1839 HOURS. AT 1945 USAF RESCUE WAS LAUNCHED. THERE WAS NO SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT ON THE ACFT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC83LA169
- Event ID
- 20001214X44395
- Case number
- ANC83LA169
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1983-09-11.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 865522d6fb2d1a9d08dc79d16c6ef4291f42134b77196ae4c3aa8ca638549e94; retrieved 2026-09-21T17:47:34.186Z.