- Date
- October 10, 1990, 10:12 local (18:12 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3330DCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 8, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19901010044789A
- Case key
- 5502
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's failure to maintain directional control. Contributing to the accident was the excessive taxi speed and inadequate maintenance on the brakes by the pilot.
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 made a precautionary landing to secure the cabin door. After landing, the airplane groundlooped during a high speed right turn off the runway onto the taxiway. The right pilot's left brake pedal was 'spongy', while the other brakes seemed normal. After the accident, air was bled from the left brake cylinder. On the previous day, the floats had been removed from the airplane and wheels reinstalled. This was the pilot's first landing with the airplane using the right set of brakes after reinstallation of the wheels.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3330D
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32128
- Engine
- Continental O-470-J, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Bristol Bay Lodge
- Departed
- LHD · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- ORT · Northway, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill Field, runway 24, 4,000 × 100 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
- 44
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 6,500 total · 400 in this make and model · 6,300 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRI
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 N3330D · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.