- Date
- December 4, 1988, 08:35 local (12:35 UTC)
- Place
- Homer, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N525EHde Havilland DHC-6
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 19, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19881204052339A
- Case key
- 5150
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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Analysis
After landing, the plt was advised to taxi to the ramp via the south taxiway, since this was the only taxiway that had been snow plowed. Only about a 12 ft width of the 80 ft wide taxiway had been plowed. The cleared portion was on the outer edge of the taxiway, next to a perimeter fence. As the plt was taxiing, his vision was restricted by darkness & blowing snow. Subsequently, the right wing of the acft struck a fence post where the perimeter fence rose in elevation.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N525EH
- Reported as
- de Havilland DHC-6
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25
- Airframe hours
- 19,343
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Era Aviation, doing business as Era Helicopters, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Era Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · November 21, 1988 · 96 hours before
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HOM · Homer, runway 21, 7,401 × 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,800 total · 2,700 in this make and model · 4,850 as pilot in command · 260 in the last 90 days · 85 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 260° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HOM, 5 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.