- Date
- August 1, 2014, 06:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Illiamna, AK
- Injuries
- 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N87808Dehavilland Beaver DHC 2
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration; ANC FSDO
- FAA report
- 20140801015229A
- Case key
- 89791
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate landing technique that resulted in a landing area overrun. Contributing was the glassy water conditions.
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 landing a float-equipped airplane at a remote lake, during glassy water conditions. Glassy water landings usually consume a considerable landing area. The pilot stated that during the landing, the airplane touched down in the typical area as in previous landings; however, the airplane remained on the step (the float/hull is supported on top of the water surface as opposed to plowing through it) longer than usual and the floats subsequently impacted the shoreline. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot stated that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot was landing a float-equipped airplane at a remote lake, during glassy water conditions. Glassy water landings usually consume a considerable landing area. The pilot stated that during the landing, the airplane touched down in the typical area as in previous landings; however, the airplane remained on the step (the float/hull is supported on top of the water surface as opposed to plowing through it) longer than usual and the floats subsequently impacted the shoreline. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot stated that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N87808
- Reported as
- Dehavilland Beaver DHC 2 (MARKI)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 56-0408
- Built
- 1957
- Airframe hours
- 12,575
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Katmai Air LLC, doing business as Katmai Air and Kulik Lodge
- Registered owner
- Katmai Air LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 21, 2014 · 49 hours before
- Departed
- LKK · Kulik, AK
- Destination
- Illiamna, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Satellite tracking device
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 17, 2014
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 17,000 total · 2,400 in this make and model · 17,000 as pilot in command · 206 in the last 90 days · 134 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.23 inHg
- Observed at
- PAIG, 30 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 5, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 814 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.