- Date
- October 8, 1993, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- King Salmon, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2245CCessna CE-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19931008038449A
- Case key
- 2468
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's selection of unsuitable terrain and the berm on the airstrip.
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-in-command elected to land on an old oil company airstrip that had been plowed. The airstrip was 10,000 feet long and 200 feet wide. He decided to use only the southeastern 2000 feet. He made 6 over flights of the airstrip and did not see any berms on the southeast end of the airstrip. Upon touchdown the airplane's landing gear struck a berm and the airplane nosed over.
Factual narrative
On October 8, 1993, at 1300 Alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped Cessna 180 airplane, registered to Cranford Aviation of King Salmon, Alaska, and operated by the Pilot-in-Command, struck a berm on landing and nosed over. The personal flight, operating under 14 CFR Part 91, last departed King Salmon, and the destination was the field site located 55 miles southeast of King Salmon. A visual flight rules flight plan was filed and visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The airplane was substantially damaged and the Pilot-in-Command and his passenger were not injured.
According to the Pilot-in-Command, after landing and during the rollout, the airplane's main landing gear struck a berm and the airplane nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2245C
- Reported as
- Cessna CE-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30545
- Airframe hours
- 3,581
- Engine
- Continental O-470R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- White, Edward
- Registered owner
- Larose, Gary And Rosemary
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Provisional (Special); Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 28, 1993 · 18 hours before
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Unknown, runway 15, 2,000 × 80 ft, grass/turf
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
- 48
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,610 total · 280 in this make and model · 7,300 as pilot in command · 217 in the last 90 days · 87 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °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 N2245C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.