- Date
- February 6, 1983, 18:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- St. Paul Island, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N456JAGates Learjet LR24DXR
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830206067559I
- Case key
- 4077
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - icyCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
While on landing roll out the acft slid to the left and contacted a snow berm causing the nose landing gear to fail aft. The reported winds were 90 degrees to the right of the runway & the runway was covered with ice.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N456JA
- Reported as
- Gates Learjet LR24DXR
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 265
- Airframe hours
- 4,854
- Engine
- GE CJ610-6, 2,950 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91 subpart F
- Registered owner
- Era Helicopters, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SNP · St. Paul Island, runway 36, 5,075 × 150 ft, ice
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 90° at 18 knots, gusting 25
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 28 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.