- Date
- April 6, 2022, 18:00 local (Apr 7, 2022, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Aleknagik, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6847BPiper PA-22-150
- Defining event
- Taxi-to runway: 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
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20220406005209A
- Case key
- 105305
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Probable cause
The pilot’s selection of unsuitable terrain for taxi which resulted in an impact with trees.
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 the ski-equipped airplane reported that while taxiing for takeoff through a narrow tree lined area on sloping hard crusted snow-covered terrain, the airplane began to slide down slope. Unable to arrest the descent, the airplane impacted trees which resulted in substantial damage to the right lift strut. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6847B
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-4146
- Built
- 1956
- Airframe hours
- 4,621.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Wood Tikchik Air
- Registered owner
- Romo Mark A
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 23, 2021
- Destination
- Dillingham, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- 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
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 2, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 2,058.4 total · 2,043.8 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.78 inHg
- Observed at
- PADL, 14 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PADL 070156Z 19005KT 10SM CLR M02/M08 A2978 RMK AO2 SLP089 T10221078=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 31, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 646 KB 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.
Other investigations on N6847B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.