- Date
- November 18, 1987, 13:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Atmautluak, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9370FCessna 208
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 4976
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
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 pilot stated that he landed at a distance approximately one-third of the way down the 2,000 foot ice covered gravel runway. After touchdown the pilot lost directional control of the aircraft causing the aircraft to exit the departure end of the runway. The propeller governor was out of rig and would not go into beta range during the landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9370F
- Reported as
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2080031
- Airframe hours
- 2,181
- Engine
- P&W PT-6, 600 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Ryan Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 08AK · Atmautlwak, runway 15, 2,000 × 80 ft, ice
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
- 45
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 27,000 total · 33 in this make and model · 26,900 as pilot in command · 400 in the last 90 days · 110 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg