- Date
- June 23, 2025, 15:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Port Graham, AK
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8630ZCessna P206C
- Defining event
- Landing: Tailstrike
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 30, 2026
- 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
- 20250623007779A
- Case key
- 200501
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper landing flare and failure to maintain pitch control, which resulted in a tail strike. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to initiate a go around after the abnormal runway contact.
Findings · 5
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 flare, the airplane bounced. While compensating for the bounce, the pilot pitched up and the tail struck the landing surface, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8630Z
- Reported as
- Cessna P206C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P206-0430
- Built
- 1967
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-LcA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- Alaska Village Missions
- Registered owner
- Alaska Village Missions
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HOM · Homer, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PGM · Port Graham, runway 30, 1,975 × 45 ft, gravel
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, 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
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 19, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 3,094.1 total · 16.9 in this make and model · 2,905.9 as pilot in command · 23.6 in the last 90 days · 14.2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Light
- Observed at
- PASO, 7 nm away
- METAR
- PASO 232253Z AUTO 36005KT 10SM BKN008 OVC027 09/08 A2995 RMK AO2 CIG 006V010 SLP143 T00890078 TSNO
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 30, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 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.