- Date
- February 25, 1983, 12:08 local (16:08 UTC)
- Place
- Nuiqsut, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6587CDouglas DC-6A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830225013189A
- Case key
- 4100
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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.
Analysis
The captain reported that the acft moved faster at idle pwr because the cargo had been offloaded. When he checked the brakes halfway down the taxiway he found that the brakes would not slow the acft on glare ice and snow. The flt engineer began reversing the propellers. Approaching the runway the acft began to turn until the nose wheel began skidding. The acft was straightened out before it slid thru a snowbank into a snow filled ditch on the opposite side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6587C
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-6A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 43579
- Airframe hours
- 22,260
- Engine
- P&W R-2800-52W, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aerolaska, Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Destination
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 10AK · Nuiqsut
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 30 knots, gusting 35
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -29 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.