- Date
- November 18, 2023, 12:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Big Lake, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N853AKCharles J Kase Kase KUB
- Defining event
- Landing: Nose over/nose down
- 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
- 20231118017959A
- Case key
- 193485
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 that was covered in deep snow.
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 she landed on a runway that was covered in deep snow which resulted in a nose over and substantial damage to the rudder and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no pre-accident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N853AK
- Reported as
- Charles J Kase Kase KUB
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 6901
- Built
- 2017
- Airframe hours
- 94
- Engine
- Lycoming O320A3B, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · November 3, 2023
- Departed
- PAWS · Wasilla, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PAGQ · Big Lake, runway 07, 2,450 × 70 ft, snow
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
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 20, 2021
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 461 total · 49 in this make and model · 382 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 5 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.90 inHg
- Observed at
- AWS, 8 nm away
- METAR
- PAWS 182056Z AUTO 00000KT CLR M12/M15 A2990 RMK AO2 SLP134 T11171150 51017 PWINO FZRANO RVRNO $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 30, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 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.