- Date
- September 7, 1990, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Deering, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N135WBeech H-18S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19900907038369A
- Case key
- 5448
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane on landing.
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
During the landing roll, the pilot lost directional control of the airplane causing the airplane to ground loop to the right. The airplane was substantially damaged. The pilot was not injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N135W
- Reported as
- Beech H-18S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA643
- Airframe hours
- 11,626
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Norton Basin Services
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 22, 1990 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- OTZ · Kotzebue, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- DRG · Deering, runway 2, 2,200 × 70 ft, gravel
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
- 39
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,900 total · 25 in this make and model · 6,900 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point -0 °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 N135W · 4
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.