- Date
- February 28, 2021, 15:56 local (Mar 1, 2021, 00:56 UTC)
- Place
- McGrath, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1748RCessna U206G
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- 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
- 20210228000179A
- Case key
- 102697
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s selection of an unsuitable landing surface.
Findings · 1
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 of the wheel-equipped tricycle gear airplane reported that, he was landing on a hard packed snow-covered airstrip. After touchdown and during the landing rollout the right main tire and nose wheel broke through the hard crusted snow. The nose gear assembly collapsed, and the right wing struck the ground. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operations. 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 mission parameters had been clearly stated to the pilot, and that hard packed snow will no longer be considered a suitable landing area for wheel-equipped airplanes.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1748R
- Reported as
- Cessna U206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20605438
- Built
- 1980
- Airframe hours
- 3,498.8
- Engine
- Cont Motor IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Alaska Skyways Inc., doing business as Regal Air
- Registered owner
- Northstar Holdings LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 27, 2020
- Departed
- PAWS · Wasilla, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 8KA · Tatitna, runway 06/24, 1,200 × 12 ft, snow
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Handheld GPS, Satellite tracking device
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
- 35
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 4, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 9,068 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 9,529 as pilot in command · 47 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -4 °F, dew point -8 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.81 inHg
- Observed at
- PAMC, 74 nm away
- METAR
- PAMC 281253Z AUTO 31009KT 3SM -SN BR OVC024 M20/M22 A2981 RMK AO2 SLP105 P0000 T12001217 TSNO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.