- Date
- December 6, 2023, 14:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- New Stuyahok, AK
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N98RABeech 200
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · 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
- 20231206017319A
- Case key
- 193493
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 loss of directional control during landing flare resulting in substantial damage to the left wing.
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 reported that, while landing on Runway 32, a remote snow-covered gravel runway, just prior to touchdown, the left wing dropped, which resulted in a hard landing. The left wing then struck a snow berm and the airplane to spun 180°. A post-accident inspection revealed that there was substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no pre-accident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N98RA
- Reported as
- Beech 200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BB439
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 14,664.1
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-41, turbo propPratt & Whitney PT6A-41, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Denaina Air Taxi LLC, doing business as TransNorthern Aviation
- Registered owner
- Denaina Air Taxi LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 21, 2023 · 59.6 hours before
- Departed
- PAJZ · Koliginek, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- PANW · New Stuyahok, runway 32, 3,281 × 75 ft, gravel
- 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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 9, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 26,825 total · 191.9 in this make and model · 26,825 as pilot in command · 190.9 in the last 90 days · 68.2 in the last 30 days · 1.4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 1.5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.72 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Observed at
- ANW, 1 nm away
- METAR
- PANW 062309Z AUTO 09006KT 1 1/2SM UP BR OVC008 M09/M10 A2972 RMK AO2 UPB05SNE05 CIG 004V010 P0000 FZRANO
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 30, 2024, 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.