SEA82FYM13 · Weatherly 201B
Decker Air Weatherly 201B · Accident: in flight collision with object during initial climb
From KENT, OR to KENT, OR
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA82FYM13
- 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
Weatherly 201B
- Aircraft type
- Weatherly 201
- 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
- N1262W
- Operator
- Decker Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From KENT, ORTo KENT, OR
- 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 137: Agricultural
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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
- Stall/mush
- 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 › Airspeed, not obtained
- Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Stall/mush, inadvertent
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Kent, OR, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT REPORTED THAT HE WAS WORKING OFF OF A 1700 FT DIRT STRIP WITH A ROUGH SURFACE AND WITH A SLIGHT CROSS- WIND. THE ELEVATION WAS ABOUT 2650 FT MSL AND THE TEMPERATURE WAS APPROXIMATELY 70 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT. THE PILOT INITIATED A TAKEOFF WITH ABOUT 1200 LBS OF 2-4-D ON BOARD. HE STATED THAT AT LIFT-OFF, THE LEFT WING DROPPED LOW AND HIT A GATE POST WHICH JAMMED THE AILERON. THE AIRCRAFT SLOWLY ROLLED TO THE LEFT AND CRASHED ABOUT 500 FT FROM THE END OF THE RUNWAY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA82FYM13
- Event ID
- 20020917X02628
- Case number
- SEA82FYM13
- 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: 59b5879b25bad356f20d12ac27f660c9f9248e667254ef7cae48d53792f1f59a; retrieved 2026-09-21T18:16:46.977Z.