- Date
- June 26, 2024, 14:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tuntutuliak, AK
- Injuries
- 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N13AVGippsland GA-8
- 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
- 20240626020039A
- Case key
- 194565
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 during takeoff after an encounter with a gusting wind, which resulted in a wing strike.
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
The pilot reported that during takeoff roll in gusting wind conditions she applied full power and the airplane veered slightly left. Then a gust of wind brought the nose up and the right wing contacted the ground, resulting in sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13AV
- Reported as
- Gippsland GA-8
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- GA8-03-028
- Built
- 2003
- Airframe hours
- 8,767
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Grant Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Grant Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · June 21, 2024
- Destination
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- A61 · Tuntutuliak, runway 02/20, 3,005 × 75 ft, gravel
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, ADS-B, 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
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 7, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,087 total · 370 in this make and model · 976 as pilot in command · 121 in the last 90 days · 69 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 14 knots, gusting 21
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.66 inHg
- Observed at
- ANA, 28 nm away
- METAR
- PANA 262156Z AUTO 11014G21KT 10SM OVC044 13/10 A2966 RMK AO2 RAE23 SLP044 P0000 T01280100 TSNO
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 28, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 11.9 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.