20050106001789I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna U206G · Anchorage, AK · January 6, 2005

Date
January 6, 2005 · 14:30 local
Place
Anchorage, AK
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
ERHA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N626KT
Reported as
Cessna U206G
Reported engine
Continental IO520F
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
18,913 total1,800 in this make and model20 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

(-23) After landing on flat horn lake, located 22 miles west of Anchorage, aircraft broke through thin layer of overflow ice damaging left and right ski rear check cable fuselage fitting attachments. Aircraft then departed flat horn lake bound for Anchorage, lake hood. Upon reaching cruise speed the right ski rear check cable attachment departed from fuselage causing the ski tip to rotate upward to a vertical position and lodge behind the wing lift strut for the remainder of the flight. During the subsequent landing at lake hood the right ski was forced back into position by contact with the ground and the remainder of the landing was uneventful.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) AFTER LANDING ON FLAT HORN LAKE, LOCATED 22 MILES WEST OF ANCHORAGE, AIRCRAFT BROKE THROUGH THIN LAYER OF OVERFLOW ICE DAMAGING LEFT AND RIGHT SKI REAR CHECK CABLE FUSELAGE FITTING ATTACHMENTS. AIRCRAFT THEN DEPARTED FLAT HORN LAKE BOUND FOR ANCHORAGE, LAKE HOOD. UPON REACHING CRUISE SPEED THE RIGHT SKI REAR CHECK CABLE ATTACHMENT DEPARTED FROM FUSELAGE CAUSING THE SKI TIP TO ROTATE UPWARD TO A VERTICAL POSITION AND LODGE BEHIND THE WING LIFT STRUT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FLIGHT. DURING THE SUBSEQUENT LANDING AT LAKE HOOD THE RIGHT SKI WAS FORCED BACK INTO POSITION BY CONTACT WITH THE GROUND AND THE REMAINDER OF THE LANDING WAS UNEVENTFUL.