Friday, August 16, 2013

Cessna U206 Super Skywagon, N2141F: Aircraft crashed on landing - Sleetmute, Alaska


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NTSB Identification: ANC13CA080
Accident occurred Thursday, August 15, 2013 in Sleetmute, AK
Aircraft: CESSNA U206, registration: N2141F

NTSB investigators will use data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator, and will not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.


 Pilot, 64, injured in rural crash, boards flight to Anchorage for treatment

SLEETMUTE, Alaska — A Sleetmute pilot was injured in crash during a test flight.

Alaska State Troopers say 64-year-old Henry Hill at about 11 a.m. Thursday was conducting a maintenance test flight of a Cessna 206.

The airplane crashed just south of the Sleetmute Airport (PASL) runway in a heavily wooded area.

Troopers say the airplane was demolished.

Hill hiked to Sleetmute and took a commercial flight to Anchorage. He was treated and released for chest pains and a bloody nose at a hospital.

Sleetmute is a southwest Alaska community of 84 on the Kuskokwim River. It's 66 miles northeast of Bethel and 243 miles west of Anchorage.


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