- Date
- July 28, 2022, 13:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Talkeetna, AK
- Injuries
- 9 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N320KTDehavilland DHC-3
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220728007569A
- Case key
- 105695
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with a ditch.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot of the tail wheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the landing roll with a crosswind, the airplane began to swerve right as the tail wheel touched the ground. The airplane then veered off the right side of the runway and collided with a ditch. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage just above the right main gear attachment. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N320KT
- Reported as
- Dehavilland DHC-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 73
- Built
- 1955
- Airframe hours
- 27,466
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Rust's Flying Service, INC
- Registered owner
- Rust's Flying Service, INC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 7, 2022
- Departed
- ATK · Talkeetna, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PATK · Talkeetna, runway 19, 3,500 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Data recorder, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Handheld GPS, Onboard weather
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
- 68
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 19, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 3,432 total · 161 in this make and model · 3,254 as pilot in command · 193 in the last 90 days · 51 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 2995.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PATK
- METAR
- PATK 282053Z VRB03KT 10SM CLR 21/03 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP172 T02060028 56010
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 28, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.9 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.