- Date
- November 16, 2025, 20:28 local (Nov 17, 2025, 05:28 UTC)
- Place
- Eek, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4112DPiper PA-31-350
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report June 22, 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
- 20251116016039A
- Case key
- 202027
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot’s loss of directional control when the airplane encountered snow and ice on the runway while landing at night in gusting crosswind conditions.
Findings · 7
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings.
Analysis
The pilot reported that after landing, during the landing roll, at night, in gusting crosswinds, the right main landing gear struck ice and a snow drift which caused the airplane to veer right. The pilot attempted to correct with opposite rudder; however, the airplane continued to slide on the ice and impacted a snow berm, which collapsed the nose gear. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the nose and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4112D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31-350
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-8353004
- Built
- 1983
- Airframe hours
- 36,154
- Engines
- Lycoming TIO-540-J2BD, 350 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming LTIO-540-J2BD, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Yute Air
- Registered owner
- Yr-Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 8, 2025 · 79 hours before
- Departed
- PAPM · Platinum, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- EEK · Eek, runway 18/36, 3,242 × 60 ft, snow
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot
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
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 1, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,986 total · 454 in this make and model · 1,630 as pilot in command · 206 in the last 90 days · 55 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 100° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 28.84 inHg
- Observed at
- AQH, 29 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PAQH 170456Z AUTO 10013KT 10SM FEW020 OVC026 02/02 A2884 RMK AO2 UPE0357B17E30RAB04E48 SLP765 P0000 T00220017 FZRANO
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 22, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 9.3 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.
Other investigations on N4112D · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.