- Date
- May 27, 2022, 22:29 local (May 28, 2022, 06:29 UTC)
- Place
- Big Lake, AK · PVT airstrip
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5896BCessna 182A
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- 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
- 20220527021239A
- Case key
- 105946
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
A hard landing for an unknown reason, resulting in substantial damage to the airplane.
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
Local law enforcement received a report of an airplane crash at a private airstrip, and upon arrival, discovered a substantially damaged airplane that had already been moved off the airstrip. A bystander identified the accident pilot, by name, to the officer, as the pilot was trying to stop a fuel leak from the left wing. When the officer approached, the pilot became hostile, and reported he only had a hard landing, and it was not an accident. The accident pilot subsequently left the scene. Photographs provided by the on-scene law enforcement officer depict substantial damage to the accident airplane’s fuselage, left wing, and left aileron. The pilot has not replied to multiple requests for additional information, and he did not complete and return the National Transportation Safety Board form 6120.1, Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/Incident Report.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5896B
- Reported as
- Cessna 182A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33896
- Built
- 1956
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 230 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- None
- Airport
- PVT · Call of the wild, runway 090, 1,000 × 60 ft, gravel
- Equipment
- Unknown
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 68
- Injuries
- Unknown
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Front
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.81 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- PAWS, 14 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PAWS 280656Z AUTO 03006KT 10SM CLR 17/M03 A2981 RMK AO2 SLP098 T01721033
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 30, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.7 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.