- Date
- January 21, 2019, 13:05 local (22:05 UTC)
- Place
- Chignik Lagoon, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N995AKPiper PA31
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20190121015549A
- Case key
- 98846
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Probable cause
The pilot’s selection of an unsuitable runway for landing, which resulted in a loss of control and runway excursion.
Findings · 3
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 commercial pilot reported that he performed a fly over of the intended landing runway and determined that it was wet and muddy. During the landing roll, the braking action was minimal due to ice on the surface. The pilot determined that the airplane was not going to stop before the end of the runway, so he applied differential engine power to spin the airplane around; however, the airplane slid off the runway and impacted a snow berm resulting in the collapse of the left landing gear. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and left horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N995AK
- Reported as
- Piper PA31 (350)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-7752089
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 18,237
- Engines
- Lycoming TIO-540-J2BD, 350 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming LTIO-540-J2BD, 350 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- Lake Clark Air Inc, doing business as Lake Clark Air
- Registered owner
- Lake Clark Air Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · January 7, 2019
- Departed
- PAJC · Chignik, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KCL · Chignik Lagoon, runway 04, 2,200 × 90 ft, water
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display, 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
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 6, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,259 total · 376 in this make and model · 2,063 as pilot in command · 166 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 2937.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PAJC, 6 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 3, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.3 MB 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.