- Date
- January 26, 2012, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Old Minto, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N713CHelio H-295
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 15, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA Fairbanks FSDO
- FAA report
- 20120126000859A
- Case key
- 82756
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Probable cause
The pilot's decision to land on unsuitable terrain, which resulted in the airplane nosing over.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was landing the ski-equipped airplane on a snow-covered lake when the left ski encountered a snow drift, and the airplane nosed over, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The pilot was landing the ski-equipped airplane on a snow covered lake when the left ski encountered a snow drift, and the airplane nosed over, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N713C
- Reported as
- Helio H-295
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1438
- Airframe hours
- 7,310
- Engine
- Lycoming GO-480 SERIES, 295 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Wright Air Service
- Registered owner
- Bursiel Equipment Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 20, 2011 · 58 hours before
- Departed
- Old Minto, AK
- Destination
- PAFA · Fairbanks, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- runway 36, snow
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 3, 2011
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,300 total · 5,000 in this make and model · 38 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- -24 °F, dew point -31 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.80 inHg
- Observed at
- PANN, 20 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 6, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 730 KB in all.
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 N713C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.