- Date
- February 22, 1984, 19:05 local (23:05 UTC)
- Place
- Cordova, AK
- Injuries
- 9 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N103VAEmbraer EM-110P1
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4386
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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
During a landing at night, the acft touched down slightly left of the rwy centerline, which was not visible, & began veering to the left. The plt reported that the acft did not respond to rudder inputs, rudder tiller inputs or differential reverse thrust. It continued to the left, hit a 30 inch snow berm (located inside the rwy lights) & went off the rwy. The left gear collapsed & the left prop hit the ground before the acft came to rest. During an exam, the left wheel rotated freely, but one side of the wheel was cut & scraped, indicating it had been locked. No mechanical brake malfunction or failure was verified. This was the plt's 1st flt in 21 days.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N103VA
- Reported as
- Embraer EM-110P1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 110-204
- Airframe hours
- 9,209
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-34, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Valdez Airlines, doing business as Wien Airlines 463
- Registered owner
- A. Jack Schaps
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 22, 1984 · 56 hours before
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CDV · Cordova Mile 13, runway 27, 7,499 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 26
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,861 total · 1,548 in this make and model · 2,707 as pilot in command · 188 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 110° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CDV, 2 nm away