- Date
- November 21, 2023, 21:00 UTC
- Place
- McCarthy, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N91393Cessna 180H
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- 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
- Case key
- 193416
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of directional control after touchdown which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing.
Findings · 3
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
While landing a wheel/ski-equipped airplane on a snow and ice-covered runway, after touchdown, the airplane began to slide to the right side of the runway. The pilot reported that the edge of a ski impacted a lip of ice which caused the airplane to nose down, and the right wing subsequently struck the ground, resulting in 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
- N91393
- Reported as
- Cessna 180H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18052063
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 8,335.1
- Engine
- Continental IO520D116B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 4, 2023
- Departed
- PAGK · Gulkana, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- 15K · McCarthy, runway 01, 3,501 × 60 ft, snow
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Handheld GPS, Satellite tracking device
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
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 12, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,674 total · 315 in this make and model · 1,605 as pilot in command · 79 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -11 °F, dew point -17 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.62 inHg
- Observed at
- AGK, 84 nm away
- METAR
- PAGK 211953Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR M24/M27 A2962 RMK AO2 SLP103 T12441272 TSNO
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 28, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 MB in all.
Other investigations on N91393 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.