Cook Inlet Aviation Cessna 207 accident
Cessna 207 · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water during landing
From Homer Airport (HOM) to Provo, UT
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's departure or destination. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC82DA016
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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 207
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 207
- 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
- N1729U
- Operator
- Cook Inlet Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Narrative disagrees
- From Homer Airport (HOM), Homer, AKTo Provo, UT
- 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- 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
- Pilot in command › Compensation for wind conditions, improper
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT REPORTED THAT DURING A BASE TO FINAL TURN, THE AIRCRAFT WAS BLOWN SLIGHTLY OFF THE CENTER LINE OF THE RUNWAY. ALSO, HE REPORTED ENCOUNTERING A WIND SHEAR EFFECT FROM A NEARBY BLUFF. AS THE PLANE DRIFTED TO THE RIGHT, IT COMMENCED A HIGH SINK RATE AND THE PILOT ADDED POWER. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR STRUCK A SNOWBERM AT THE EDGE OF THE RUNWAY. THE PLANE CONTINUED IN A RELATIVELY STRAIGHT LINE FOR ABOUT 75 TO 80 FT, THEN NOSED OVER.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC82DA016
- Event ID
- 20020917X01626
- Case number
- ANC82DA016
- 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: 74e548243221c641eba53050c5b2b14164698cef7e7557db789dee79bf0147df; retrieved 2026-09-18T21:12:53.821Z.