- Date
- July 18, 1996, 12:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tyonek, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2813CCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 18, 1997
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19960718019529A
- Case key
- 2861
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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 was landing his tailwheel airplane on a narrow gravel road. During the landing roll, he lost directional control and the airplane swerved to the left and went off the roadway.
Factual narrative
On July 18, 1996, about 1200 Alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped Cessna 170B airplane, N2813C, sustained substantial damage while landing at an off airport site located approximately 8 miles northwest of Tyonek, Alaska. The airline transport certificated pilot, and the sole passenger aboard, were not injured. The local, 14 CFR Part 91 flight departed Lake Hood Strip, Anchorage, Alaska, about 1130, and operated in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan.
During a telephone conversation with the NTSB investigator-in-charge on July 23, 1996, the pilot stated he was attempting to land the airplane on a narrow, gravel surfaced road that was formerly used to provide access to oil well drilling sites. The pilot said he lost directional control during the landing roll, the airplane swerved to the left, went off the roadway, and subsequently damaged the right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2813C
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 26356
- Airframe hours
- 2,836
- Engine
- Continental C-145-2, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John C. Fray
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 30, 1996 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- Z41 · Anchorage, AK
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,397 total · 117 in this make and model · 3,486 as pilot in command · 190 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.