- Date
- July 14, 2005, 19:00 local (Jul 15, 2005, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Karluk, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8152ZPiper PA-32-301
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 20, 2005
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20050714022729A
- Case key
- 62005
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Probable cause
A collision with a deer on the runway during the landing roll, which resulted in substantial damage to the tail of the airplane.
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
During the landing roll of the 14 CFR Part 135 air taxi passenger flight, a deer ran onto the runway, and was struck by the right horizontal stabilizer of the airplane. The right horizontal stabilizer and empennage were structurally damaged.
Factual narrative
On July 14, 2005, about 1900 Alaska daylight time, a Piper PA-32-301 airplane, N8152Z, sustained substantial damage during the landing roll, when it collided with a deer on the runway at the Karluk Airport, Karluk, Alaska. The airplane was being operated by Island Air, Kodiak, Alaska, as a visual flight rules (VFR) on-demand air taxi passenger flight under Title 14, CFR Part 135, when the accident occurred. The commercial certificated pilot and sole passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and company flight following procedures were in effect. The flight departed Kodiak about 1815.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC) on July 15, the chief pilot for the operator said during the landing roll a deer ran onto the runway, and was struck by the right horizontal stabilizer of the airplane. He said the horizontal stabilizer and empennage were structurally damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8152Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-301
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-8006004
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Island Air, doing business as Island Air
- Registered owner
- Redemption Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- KDK · Kodiak, AK
- Destination
- PAKY · Karluk, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- PAKY · Karluk, runway 28
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
- 22
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 1,634 total · 290 in this make and model · 290 in the last 90 days · 118 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
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 N8152Z · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.