- Date
- July 19, 2026, 14:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Nondalton, AK · Lake Clark Lodge airstrip
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N791PWDehavilland DHC-2 MK.I
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203418
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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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On July 19, 2026 about 1440 Alaska daylight time, a DeHavilland DHC-2 airplane, N791PW was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Nondalton, Alaska. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 business flight. The pilot reported that he conducted a normal landing on a remote airstrip, and after touching down he applied the brakes, but the right brake did not respond. The airplane veered to the left, the pilot attempted to correct the left drift by adding additional right brake; the brake did not respond. The airplane ground looped and departed the runway which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing and right elevator. A postaccident examination of the brake system is pending.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N791PW
- Reported as
- Dehavilland DHC-2 MK.I
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 791
- Built
- 1955
- Airframe hours
- 12,779.9
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Lake Clark Lodge
- Registered owner
- N491pw LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 17, 2026 · 113.4 hours before
- Departed
- PVT · Keyes Point, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PVT · Lake Clark Lodge Strip, runway N/A, 1,300 × 50 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 14 knots, gusting 24
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- PAIL, 22 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PAIL 190953Z AUTO 10014G24KT 10SM SCT042 OVC050 09/07 A2989 RMK AO2 PK WND 11028/0938 RAE22 SLP125 P0001 T00940067 TSNO $