SEA84FA017 · Cessna A185F
Cessna A185F · Accident: in flight collision with object on approach
From 60S · Vancouver, WA to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA84FA017
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna A185F
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 185
- 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
- N53079
- Operator
- Terrance O. Bohrer · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 60S · Vancouver, WATo 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
- Approach · VFR go-around
- 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 object
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Tree(s)
- 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
- Pilot in command › Distance, misjudged
- Pilot in command › Go-around, delayed
- Pilot in command › Go-around, improper
- Pilot in command › Performance data, not followed
- Pilot in command › Planned approach, inaccurate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH 3 MAJOR OBJECTS, A TREE, A HOUSE AND A MOTOR HOME DURING AN ATTEMPTED GO-AROUND. THE PILOT HAD ATTEMPTED A LANDING ON A SOFT SHORT DIRT ROAD NEAR HIS HOME. THE LENGTH OF THE ROAD WAS 462 FT. HE LANDED 74 FT SHORT OFMARKERS AT THE PLANNED TOUCHDOWN POINT. THE PASSENGER SAID IT WAS QUICKLY APPARENT THAT THEY COULD NOT STOP IN TIME. THEPILOT RETRACTED THE FLAPS TO 20 DEGREES AND APPLIED FULL POWER. THE ACFT LEFT THE GROUND 71 FT BEFORE THE END OF THE ROAD. THE TREE WAS ABOUT 125 FT AWAY AND WAS 16 FT TALL. THE ACFT HIT AT ABOUT 8 FT AGL. IT THEN HIT THE HOUSE ABOUT 25 FT AWAY AND PART OF THE ACFT STAYED THERE (THE TAIL SECTION AND PART OF THE FUSELAGE). THE FORWARD CABIN/COCKPIT AREA AND WINGS HIT THE MOTOR HOME AND CONTINUED ON IN THE YARD ABOUT ANOTHER 125 FT. THE TWO OCCUPANTS AND THEIR SEATS WERE THROWN OUT OF THE COCKPIT AND CAME TO REST NEAR THE FORWARD PORTION OF THE ACFT. THE PILOT DIED OF HIS INJURIES. THE PASSENGER RECEIVED ONLY MINOR INJURIES.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA84FA017
- Event ID
- 20001214X45199
- Case number
- SEA84FA017
- 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: cb5d3ea8cdf69e47691ac3d057eb13656538a19b52e85b515abb0abaeef8bd52; retrieved 2026-09-21T05:55:21.999Z.