- Date
- October 4, 2000, 18:10 local (Oct 5, 2000, 02:10 UTC)
- Place
- Port Alsworth, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N1822MCurtis-Wright C-46F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 2, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20001005041749A
- Case key
- 50485
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance during taxi. A factor associated with the accident was trees.
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 certificated airline transport pilot stated that he had landed and was taxiing to the parking area. He related that as he turned the airplane to the right to enter a taxiway, the left wingtip struck a tree. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the outboard portion of the left wingtip and left aileron.
Factual narrative
On October 4, 2000, about 1810 Alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped Curtis Wright C-46F airplane, N1822M, sustained substantial damage after landing at the Port Alsworth Airport, Port Alsworth, Alaska. The airplane was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) cargo flight under Title 14, CFR Part 125, when the accident occurred. The airplane was registered to, and operated by, Everts Air Fuel, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska. The first pilot, a certificated airline transport pilot, and the second pilot, a certificated commercial pilot, were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a company flight plan was in effect. The flight originated at the Fairbanks International Airport, Fairbanks, about 1600.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board investigator-in-charge on October 5, the captain indicated that he had landed and was taxiing to the parking area. He related that as he turned the airplane to the right to enter a taxiway, the left wingtip struck a tree. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the outboard portion of the left wingtip and left aileron.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1822M
- Reported as
- Curtis-Wright C-46F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22388
- Airframe hours
- 30,035
- Engine
- P&W R2800-13, 2,000 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 125
- Registered owner
- Everts Air Fuel, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · August 28, 2000 · 75 hours before
- Departed
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Port Alsworth, runway 23, 3,500 × 150 ft, gravel
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 33,000 total · 11,000 in this make and model · 3,200 as pilot in command · 400 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 36° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1822M · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.