- Date
- August 28, 2023, 12:05 local (20:05 UTC)
- Place
- Chinitna Bay, AK · beach
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N1733RCessna U206F
- Defining event
- Takeoff: 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
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230828009859A
- Case key
- 192982
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 directional control on takeoff.
Findings · 4
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 takeoff from a remote beach site, soft sand pulled the airplane to the left, so she aborted the takeoff and repositioned for a second attempt. During the second takeoff attempt, just prior to rotation, the airplane’s right wheel contacted the water, which pivoted the airplane to the right, and it nosed down into the shallow water. The right wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no pre-accident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1733R
- Reported as
- Cessna U206F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20602068
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 8,862
- Engine
- Continental IO-520DCF, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Alaska Skyways Inc, doing business as Regal Air
- Registered owner
- Northstar Holdings LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 8, 2023 · 78 hours before
- Destination
- PALH · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- runway N/A, 5,000 × 35 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Handheld GPS, Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system
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
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 17, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,351 total · 310 in this make and model · 1,277 as pilot in command · 220 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- PAHO, 51 nm away
- METAR
- PAHO 281953Z 22004KT 7SM -RA FEW006 FEW012 OVC041 12/10 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP113 P0003 T01170100
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 4, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.7 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.