- Date
- August 6, 2024, 17:00 local (Aug 7, 2024, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Skwentna, AK
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9303ZDehavilland Beaver DHC-2
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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
- FAA report
- 20240806014139A
- Case key
- 194923
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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, during the landing roll out, the right wing impacted trees along the edge of the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing, fuselage and lift strut. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9303Z
- Reported as
- Dehavilland Beaver DHC-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 380
- Built
- 1954
- Airframe hours
- 11,043
- Engine
- P&W R-985 SERIES, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Bush Air Alaska LLC, doing business as Bush Air Alaska LLC
- Registered owner
- Sea Air Venutres LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 30, 2024 · 19.3 hours before
- Departed
- Z-40 · anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PVT · Bentalit, runway n/a, 2,100 × 70 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Handheld GPS
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 30, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 3,200 total · 1,100 in this make and model · 3,150 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 11,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.99 inHg
- Observed at
- PAWS, 47 nm away
- METAR
- PAWS 070056Z AUTO 02004KT 10SM -RA FEW029 SCT036 BKN110 17/14 A2999 RMK AO2 SLP158 P0001 T01670139
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 8, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 13.0 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.