- Date
- October 19, 1991, 14:43 local (22:43 UTC)
- Place
- Allakaket, AK
- Injuries
- 9 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N299GLBeech BE-99
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19911019047099A
- Case key
- 5638
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Was the pilot-in-command misjudged the proper touchdown point on the runway. Contributing to the accident was the snow-covered terrain and a snowbank.
Analysis
The airplane crashed short of the runway by 340 feet. After touchdown on the snow-covered tundra, the airplane skidded for 1,000 feet before coming to rest on the left side of the runway. The weather was partial obscured with 5 miles of visibility in blowing snow.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N299GL
- Reported as
- Beech BE-99
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U102
- Airframe hours
- 34,379
- Engine
- P&W PT-6-A27, 680 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Northern Air Lease, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · October 18, 1991 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- AET · Allakaket, runway 35, 3,020 × 100 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
- 46
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 17,653 total · 293 in this make and model · 16,609 as pilot in command · 230 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 23 °F, dew point 16 °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 N299GL · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.