- Date
- January 15, 1990, 07:54 local (11:54 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N900THBeech E18F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19900115000449A
- Case key
- 5281
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Probable cause
Inadequate supervision by company/operator personnel and inadequate preflight planning/preparation by the captain, which resulted in an improperly loaded aircraft.
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The capt rprtd that after lift-off, the acft began a left roll as the landing gear was retracted. He corrected with aileron/rudder & lowered the nose, but the acft rolled to the right, then back to the left. Subsequently, he landed the acft near the dep end of the rwy with the landing gear retracted. An investigation revealed the acft had been loaded to a wt of about 12,850 lbs. The max gross wt limit for the acft was 11,500 lbs. Also, the acft's center-of- gravity was estimated to be about 3 inches aft of the aft limit. The company director rprtd that when the cargo ship- ment(s) were delivered to the company, the weight(s) were not checked prior to loading the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N900TH
- Reported as
- Beech E18F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA106
- Airframe hours
- 5,771
- Engine
- Garrett 331-1-101B, 620 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Troy Air Incorporated
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · December 16, 1989 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- ANC
- Destination
- ADQ · Kodiak, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ANC · Anchorage Intl, runway 24L, 10,897 × 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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,380 total · 50 in this make and model · 5,329 as pilot in command · 280 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 190° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANC, 1 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.