- Date
- February 21, 2022, 08:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Deadhorse, AK
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N413JPDehavilland DHC-3
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area undershoot
- 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
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20220221000909A
- Case key
- 104691
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 failure to maintain a proper approach path in flat light conditions, which resulted in landing short of the runway and impact with terrain.
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 reported that, while landing at a remote ice-covered airstrip, in flat light conditions, the airplane descended below the glide path and landed short of the airstrip. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no pre-accident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N413JP
- Reported as
- Dehavilland DHC-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 314
- Built
- 1958
- Airframe hours
- 14,122
- Engine
- honeywell TPE331-12JR, 900 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Bald Mountain Air Service Inc
- Registered owner
- Bald Mountain Air Service Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 27, 2021 · 36 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PVT · Pvt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 17, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 6,762 total · 1,320 in this make and model · 23.8 in the last 90 days · 23.8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -20 °F, dew point -27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- PASC, 90 nm away
- METAR
- PASC 211753Z 09011KT 10SM OVC100 M29/M33 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP196 T12891328 11289 21344 56035 PNO $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 18, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 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.