- Date
- August 1, 2025, 15:54 local (23:54 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK · Open field
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N645ATCessna 208B
- Defining event
- Landing: Abnormal runway contact
- 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
- 20250801018109A
- Case key
- 200685
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 decision to continue an unstabilized approach, which resulted in a landing touchdown with insufficient runway remaining and a subsequent runway overrun and a collision with a fence.
Findings · 9
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 operator reported that to comply with the straight-in arrival procedure at the airport, the pilot was required to make a steeper approach to the runway, and he did not decelerate the airplane to a normal landing speed during the approach. As the approach continued, the airplane passed over the runway threshold faster than anticipated, resulting in an inadvertent, midfield touchdown. After touchdown, the pilot determined that there was not enough runway to safely abort the landing, so he continued the landing roll. He applied reverse thrust and hard braking, but the airplane overran the runway, collided with an airport perimeter fence, crossed six lanes of traffic before coming to rest in an open grass field. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing lift strut. The operator reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N645AT
- Reported as
- Cessna 208B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 208B5009
- Built
- 2013
- Airframe hours
- 9,292
- Engine
- Pratt & Whittney PT6A-140, 867 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- J & M Alaska Air Tours, doing business as Alaska Air Transit
- Registered owner
- Hinterland Holdings LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 29, 2025 · 9.1 hours before
- Departed
- PAKA · Tatitlek, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill Field, runway 34, 2,640 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator
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
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 20, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 11,059 total · 564 in this make and model · 9,664 as pilot in command · 133 in the last 90 days · 64 in the last 30 days · 5.9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- PAMR
- METAR
- PAMR 012353Z 31006KT 10SM SCT024 OVC100 18/13 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP168 60000 T01780133 10189 20150 53004
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 18, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.1 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.