- Date
- January 23, 1989, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kalskag, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1749UCessna 207
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19890123001109A
- Case key
- 5163
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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Probable cause
The pilot failed to properly align the airplane on the runway for landing, then failed to maintain directional control after landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilots operation of the airplane with an inoperative landing light and the dark night conditions.
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 lost directional control of the airplane which collised with a snowberm after landing with inoperative landing and taxi lights on a dark night. The airplane touched down about 20 feet left of the center of the runway, with the left main wheel 2-3 feet from a 2-3 foot deep snowberm along the left side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1749U
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700349
- Airframe hours
- 9,486
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Bush Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 4, 1989 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- Z59 · Bethel, AK
- Destination
- KLG · Kalskag, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- KLG · Kalskag
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
- 47
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,490 total · 4,450 in this make and model · 11,700 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 140° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1749U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.