- Date
- August 31, 2026, 15:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Venetie, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N420KBMaule M-5-210C
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260831012409A
- Case key
- 203772
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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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
- N420KB
- Reported as
- Maule M-5-210C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6097C
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 1,194.7
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 16, 2026 · 20 hours before
- Destination
- CXF · Coldfoot, AK
- Airport
- NONE · Remote Strip
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Stall warning system
N420KBRegistered now · Maule M-5-210CAirframe modelMaule M-5-210CEngine modelContinental IO-360 series
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
- 90° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.68 inHg
- Observed at
- ARC, 39 nm away
- METAR
- PARC 312256Z AUTO 09004KT 10SM OVC060 09/01 A2968 RMK AO2 SLP084 T00890011 TSNO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.