# NTSB ANC05CA151: Cessna 182, N3569Y, Bethel, AK, October 1, 2005

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report
- Date: September 30, 2005, 21:15 local (Oct 1, 2005, 05:15 UTC)
- Place: Bethel, AK
- Coordinates: 60, -161.166671
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=60.0000&lon=-161.1667&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report January 31, 2006
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office: Alaska Regional Office
- NTSB case key (mKey): 62584
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ANC05CA151
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/62584/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC05CA151

## Probable cause

The pilot's misjudged distance and speed, which resulted in an overrun and a nose over during the landing roll.  A factor associated with the accident was the dusk lighting conditions.

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Overrun, landing - roll
  - light condition - dusk (contributing factor)
  - distance/speed - misjudged, pilot in command (cause)
- On ground/water encounter with terrain/water, landing - roll
  - terrain condition - tundra
- Nose over, landing - roll

## Analysis

The airline transport certificated pilot reported he was on a personal, 14 CFR Part 91 flight to a remote airstrip.  He said that he left his departure airport too late, and arrived at the remote airstrip as it was getting dark.  He said because it was getting dark, he landed too far down the runway, went off the end, and nosed over.  The pilot indicated that were no preaccident mechanical problems with the airplane.

## Factual narrative

On September 30, 2005, about 2115 Alaska daylight time, a wheel-equipped Cessna 182 airplane, N3569Y, sustained substantial damage when it overran the end of the runway and nosed over at a remote airstrip about 60 miles east-southeast of Bethel, Alaska.  The airline transport certificated pilot and the sole passenger were not injured.  The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight departed Bethel about 2030, and the destination was the accident airstrip.  No flight plan was filed, and the pilot reported visual meteorological conditions prevailed.

During a telephone conversation with the NTSB investigator-in-charge on October 3, the pilot related that he and his son, the passenger, were en route to the remote airstrip for a camping/hunting trip.  He said he left Bethel too late, and by the time he arrived at the airstrip, it was getting dark.  He stated that because of the dark sky, he misjudged his landing, and landed too far down the airstrip.  He was unable to stop the airplane, and it went off the end of the runway and nosed over.  The pilot said that there were no preaccident mechanical problems with the airplane.

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N3569Y](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N3569Y), registered now, S/N 18254469, built 1962 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: Cessna 182
- Registry model: [Cessna 182F](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182f) (registry code 2072714) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental O-470 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (registry code 17026, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 18254469
- Engines: Continental O-470-R reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Operator: Archelaus E. Turrentine
- Registered owner: Laura Whitman
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Departed: PABE, .Bethel, AK

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 49; airline transport; airplane ratings: single-engine sea, single-engine land, multi-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2; flight hours: 20,000 total, 100 in this make and model, 400 in the last 90 days, 100 in the last 30 days

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Dusk

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20050930027649A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20050930027649A), Sep 30, 2005: Cessna 182F, Bethel, AK, Substantial damage. (-23) The pilot in command stated that he "stupidly" landed downwind, at dark, on the snow covered, unlit runway, which is located in a narrow canyon…

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.

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