- Date
- March 28, 1991, 09:58 local (13:58 UTC)
- Place
- Kasigluk, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76RLPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 7, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19910328009409A
- Case key
- 5529
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane on landing. Contributing to the accident was the 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
This was an on demand air taxi cargo flight and the chief pilot stated that during the landing roll the pilot lost directional control of the airplane causing the aircraft to veer to the right striking a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76RL
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 327540024
- Airframe hours
- 4,734
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-KIA5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Camai Air, doing business as Camai Air
- Registered owner
- Camai Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 20, 1991 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- KVG · Kasigluk, runway 35, 2,200 × 80 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, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,802 total · 82 in this make and model · 1,733 as pilot in command · 119 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 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 N76RL · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.