# Accident 20070724832419A: Dhav DHC2MKI, Ketchikan, AK, July 24, 2007

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 24, 2007, 14:05 local time
- Place: Ketchikan, AK
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Maneuver
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: TQ0A
- Location: 55.5514° N, 130.6856° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=55.5514&lon=-130.6856&mi=10
- Aircraft: N995WA, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N995WA-2013-08-05) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A) (registry code 2808002, https://openairdocs.org/model/dehavilland-dhc-2-mk-i-l20a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney R-985 series (registry code 52008, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-r-985-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: DHAV DHC2MKI
- Reported engine: PWA R985*
- People aboard: 5
- Fatal injuries: 5
- Pilot flight hours: 5,260 total, 160 in this make and model, 160 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB ANC07FA068](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC07FA068) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070724832419A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON JULY 24, 2007, ABOUT 1405 ALASKA DAYLIGHT TIME, A FLOAT-EQUIPPED DE HAVILAND DHC-2 AIRPLANE, N995WA, WAS DESTROYED WHEN IT IMPACTED MOUNTAINOUS TREE-COVERED TERRAIN, ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF KETCHIKAN, ALASKA.  THE AIRPLANE WAS BEING OPERATED AS A VISUAL FLIGHT RULES (VFR) ON-DEMAND AIR TOUR FLIGHT UNDER TITLE 14, CFR PART 135, WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.  THE AIRPLANE WAS OPERATED BY VENTURE TRAVEL LLC, DBA TAQUAN AIR SERVICE OF KETCHIKAN.  THE AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT AND THE FOUR PASSENGERS WERE FATALLY INJURED.  INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC) WERE REPORTED IN THE AREA AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.  THE FLIGHT DEPARTED KETCHIKAN ABOUT 1319, FOR A TOUR THROUGH THE MISTY FJORDS NATIONAL MONUMENT.  A COMPANY VFR FLIGHT PLAN WAS IN EFFECT.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB ANC07FA068](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC07FA068), Jul 24, 2007: de Havilland DHC-2 (N995WA), Ketchikan, AK, destroyed, 5 fatal. Probable cause: The pilot's decision to continue under visual flight rules into an area of instrument metrological conditions. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inadequate weather evaluation, and the…

## Other reports on N995WA (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19980730035939I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980730035939I), Jul 30, 1998: Dhav DHC2MKI (N995WA), Ketchikan, AK, Minor damage. In releasing aircraft from dock and prior to taxi, dock boys' allowed airc raft to weather van and rotate left wing into another aircraft. No passengers'…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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