- Date
- December 25, 1991, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tatitlek, AK
- Injuries
- 3 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N27827Piper PA-31
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19911225057199A
- Case key
- 5679
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to perform a go around. Contributing to the accident was the icy runway condition and the failure of the fss personnel to properly issue and disseminate a NOTAM concerning the icy runway condition.
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 airplane landed on an ice and water covered runway, then was unable to stop before running off the departure end. On the previous day, a pilot had reported, to a nearby FAA fss, that the runway was covered with glare ice and water and that the braking action was nil. This information was not put in a NOTAM, and the accident pilot was not aware of the runway condition prior to landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N27827
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-7952006
- Airframe hours
- 5,083
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-J2BD, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Security Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Security Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 9, 1991 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- AK47 · Tatitlek, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- AK47 · Tatitlek, runway 3, 2,200 × 95 ft, ice
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
- 43
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,400 total · 375 in this make and model · 3,300 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 34 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.