- Date
- March 9, 1989, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kasigluk, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4257TPiper PA-32
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19890309003459A
- Case key
- 5171
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate visual lookout which resulted in the collision with a snowbank.
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 had just landed and was back taxiing when the airplane struck a snowbank next to the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4257T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32720035
- Airframe hours
- 4,051
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Tim Crace
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 5, 1989 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- KUK · Kasigluk, runway 17, 2,400 × 75 ft, snow
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, 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
- 1,229 total · 304 in this make and model · 1,156 as pilot in command · 246 in the last 90 days · 105 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
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 N4257T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.