Date:	Saturday 30 August 1975
Time:	13:57
Type:	Fairchild F-27B
Owner/operator:	Wien Air Alaska
Registration:	N4904
MSN:	21
Year of manufacture:	1958
Total airframe hrs:	2397 hours
Engine model:	Rolls-Royce Dart 514-7
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 32
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1 km E of Gambell Airport, AK (GAM) -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Nome Airport, AK (OME/PAOM)
Destination airport:	Gambell Airport, AK (GAM/PAGM)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Flight 99 crashed into a mountain and overturned while attempting to land at Gambell runway 15. A fire started in the left engine but spread only slowly to the passenger cabin.
Weather was poor with low ceilings and a visibility of 400 m at some places.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flight crew's failure to adhere to prescribed company instrument approach procedures while attempting to land in adverse weather conditions."

Aviation News 03 October 1975
Flight International 17 April 76 (998)

photo (c) NTSB; Gambell, AK; 30 August 1975; (publicdomain)

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