- Date
- March 14, 1985, 14:55 local (18:55 UTC)
- Place
- Nulato, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7848BCurtiss C-46R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4472
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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.
Overrun
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - snow coveredFactor
Judgment - poorCause
Brakes(normal) - inadequateCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbank
Analysis
The acft continued off the end of the rwy and contacted a snow berm during the landing roll. The plt reported the rwy braking action as poor.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7848B
- Reported as
- Curtiss C-46R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 273
- Airframe hours
- 2,803
- Engine
- P&W R-2800/97, 2,000 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Clifford R. Everts
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 6, 1985 · 76 hours before
- Departed
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Airport
- NUL · Nulato, runway 2, 3,000 × 80 ft, gravel
N7848BRegistered now · Curtiss Wright C-46RAirframe modelCurtiss Wright C-46REngine modelPratt & Whitney R-2800 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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,700 total · 1,200 in this make and model · 14,700 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
Other investigations on N7848B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.