ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325202
| Date: | Thursday 19 August 1993 |
| Time: | 15:22 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Owner/operator: | Ketchum Air Service |
| Registration: | N321KA |
| MSN: | 415 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7200 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1340-61 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Iliamna, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Nikabuna Lake, AK |
| Anchorage-Lake Hood, AK (LHD/PALH) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The float equipped Otter experienced a non- mechanical loss of engine power during climb from Nikabuna Lake. The pilot executed a forced landing on a small pond, and the airplane overran the water area into woodland and caught fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Fluid, fuel starvation as a result of the pilot-in-command's improper in-flight planning/decision. A factor in the accident was the operator's inadequate flight time and fuel upload record keeping."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
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