- Date
- June 19, 2014, 18:30 local (Jun 20, 2014, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- Egegik, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N208SMCessna 208B
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 24, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20140619010189A
- Case key
- 89496
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Probable cause
The pilot's loss of situational awareness during the takeoff roll resulting in a collision with a refrigeration trailer.
Findings · 4
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 departing from a road lined with refrigeration trailers located on a tidal beach. He said that during the takeoff roll he noticed a red buoy located in his departure path. He reduced the throttle and attempted to maneuver around the buoy striking the right wing on a refrigeration trailer. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot stated that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation. In the recommendation section of the NTSB Accident/Incident Reporting Form 6120.1, the operator stated that the accident may have been prevented if the pilot had followed company policy and walked the beach to look for obstructions prior to departure.
Factual narrative
The pilot was departing from a road lined with refrigeration trailers located on a tidal beach. He said that during the takeoff roll he noticed a red buoy located in his departure path. He reduced the throttle and attempted to maneuver around the buoy striking the right wing on a refrigeration trailer. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot stated that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation. In the recommendation section of the NTSB Accident/Incident Reporting Form 6120.1, the operator stated that the accident may have been prevented if the pilot had followed company policy and walked the beach to look for obstructions prior to departure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N208SM
- Reported as
- Cessna 208B (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 208B0749
- Built
- 1999
- Airframe hours
- 18,403
- Engine
- P&W PT6A SER, 675 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Grant Aviation Inc, doing business as Grant Aviation
- Registered owner
- Larkspur Fund, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · June 18, 2014
- Departed
- IGG · Egegik, AK
- Destination
- Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 15, 2014
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,963 total · 841 in this make and model · 1,635 as pilot in command · 214 in the last 90 days · 97 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.87 inHg
- Observed at
- PAII, 7 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 2, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 648 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.