- Date
- August 12, 2000, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Port Alsworth, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3569TTaylorcraft F-19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 18, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20000812042429A
- Case key
- 50976
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to touchdown at the proper point on the landing area. Factors associated with this accident were the rough landing area, and the brush along the gravel bar.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot said he was landing on a 500 feet long by 60 feet wide gravel bar. He indicated that the airplane touched down short of the normal landing area, the left wheel landed in a hole which he had not seen, and the left wing contacted a brush pile. The airplane nosed over, and sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, right front lift strut, and left wing.
Factual narrative
On August 12, 2000, about 1300 Alaska daylight time, a tundra tire equipped Taylorcraft F-19 airplane, N3569T, sustained substantial damage when it nosed over during landing at an off airport landing site on the Mulchatna River, Alaska, about 70 miles west of Port Alsworth, Alaska, at 59 degrees, 55 minutes north latitude, 156 degrees, 30 minutes west longitude. The solo airline transport pilot was not injured. The personal flight was conducted under 14 CFR Part 91, and departed Port Alsworth about 1200 for the accident site. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident, and no flight plan was filed.
The pilot told the NTSB investigator-in-charge (IIC), during a telephone interview on August 13, that he was landing to the west on the 500 feet long by 60 feet wide gravel bar. He indicated that the airplane touched down short of the normal landing area, the left wheel landed in a hole which he had not seen, and the left wing contacted a brush pile. The airplane nosed over, and sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, right front lift strut, and left wing. He said he had flown to the site one time previously.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3569T
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft F-19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- F-030
- Airframe hours
- 1,279
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gladys Justeson; Monte R. Ford
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 4, 1999 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- Z30 · AK
- Destination
- Mulchatna River, AK
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 31
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,700 total · 460 in this make and model · 9,200 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 130 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.