- Date
- October 6, 1992, 13:55 local (21:55 UTC)
- Place
- Nightmute, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N76RLPiper PA-32-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19921006044229A
- Case key
- 5845
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Probable cause
Pilot did not attain proper touchdown point while landing on a raised gravel runway.
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 said he struck the lip of the gravel runway during a visual approach. The left landing wheel and axle broke off and he completed the landing without the left wheel. The runway is gravel built up to 10 to 15 feet above the surrounding tundra.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76RL
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 327540024
- Airframe hours
- 8,794
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-KIAS, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Camai Air
- Registered owner
- Camai Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 27, 1992 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- AK08 · Nightmute, runway 2, 1,600 × 45 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
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,207 total · 320 in this make and model · 1,131 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F
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.