- Date
- May 27, 2022, 09:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Willow, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1694MCessna A185E
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- 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
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 105156
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 unsuitable terrain for landing which resulted in a nose over.
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 during the landing rollout on a remote sandbar, the airplane’s main tires encountered an area of soft sand and the airplane nosed over, which resulted in substantial damage to the wings, vertical stabilizer, and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation, and that the accident may have been prevented if he had applied less brakes and been more prepared for the soft and uneven landing surface.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1694M
- Reported as
- Cessna A185E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18501879
- Built
- 1971
- Airframe hours
- 9,271
- Engine
- Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wraith Lane T
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 22, 2022
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Handheld GPS
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
- 46
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 28, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 821 total · 84 in this make and model · 755 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.88 inHg
- Observed at
- PABV, 34 nm away
- METAR
- PABV 271756Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 14/04 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP123 T01390039 10139 20083 53001
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 31, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.9 MB in all.
Other investigations on N1694M · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.