- Date
- June 7, 2022, 23:00 local (Jun 8, 2022, 07:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chisana, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N731EShort Bros. & Harland SC7
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- 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
- 20220607007089A
- Case key
- 105265
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 site, which resulted in the nosewheel collapsing.
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 of a twin-engine, turbine-powered airplane was landing at a remote, rough, soft, turf and grass covered airstrip at the completion of a Part 135 cargo flight. He said that after an uneventful touchdown, as the airplane’s landing roll slowed, the right main landing gear wheel and the nose wheel contacted an area of soft, muddy terrain. The airplane’s nose wheel collapsed, and it subsequently folded under the fuselage. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported no mechanical problems that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N731E
- Reported as
- Short Bros. & Harland SC7
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- SH-1853
- Built
- 1968
- Engines
- Garrett TPE-331-2, 715 hp, turbo propGarrett TPE-331-2, 715 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Viking Air LLC, doing business as Alaskan Air Charter LLC
- Registered owner
- Alaskan Air Charter LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · June 6, 2022 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- PAOR · Northway, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- CZN · Chisana Airport, runway 12, 3,000 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Last flight review
- June 2, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,700 total · 600 in this make and model · 2,350 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 20, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 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.