- Date
- May 3, 1992, 13:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Barrow, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N20752Cessna C-A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920503013219A
- Case key
- 5719
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Probable cause
The improper use of the flt controls by the second pilot during landing roll. Factors relating to the mishap were the rough/uneven snow covered terrain.
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 ATP rated second pilot was being checked out for commercial opns in ski equipped acft by a company designated instructor who had landed at a remote snow covered site. The second pilot made a takeoff, traffic pattern, and initiated his first ski landing. The acft bounced twice on the rough surface, the right wing dropped down, dragging the right ski, and the right main landing gear collapsed at the gear box.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20752
- Reported as
- Cessna C-A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503041
- Airframe hours
- 3,108
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cape Smythe Air Service, Inc
- Registered owner
- Cape Smythe Air Service, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 27, 1992 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- BRW · Barrow, AK
- Destination
- BRW · Barrow, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 9,600 as pilot in command · 320 in the last 90 days · 110 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BRW, 10 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 N20752 · 7
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.