- Date
- March 28, 1992, 12:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Fairbanks, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3332SCessna A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920328007639A
- Case key
- 5706
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
Poor in flight planning/decision. Factors to the accident were: snow covered terrain, and wrong runway not identified.
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 reported that he was unfamiliar with the area and the landing strip. The pilot over flew the runway and misidentified the runway for a taxiway or road near the aircraft parking ramp. Instead of landing on the runway, the pilot landed the airplane on the frozen airstrip float plane canal that runs parallel to the runway. During the landing roll, the landing gear sank into the soft snow and the airplane nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3332S
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18502274
- Airframe hours
- 2,750
- Engine
- Continental IO-520D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- R & M Consultants, Inc.
- Registered owner
- R & M Consultants, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 1992 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Chena Marina, runway 36, 3,000 × 75 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,825 total · 1,492 in this make and model · 3,800 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FAI, 11 nm away
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 N3332S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.