- Date
- January 15, 2016, 10:23 local (19:23 UTC)
- Place
- Hooper Bay, AK
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N104ANCessna CE-208
- Defining event
- Landing: Miscellaneous/other
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 5, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20160115003779A
- Case key
- 92613
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to identify the runway, resulting in the airplane touching down a few feet to the right of the runway.
Findings · 4
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 reported that he aligned the airplane on final approach with what "appeared" to be the runway with a small snow berm on both the left and right sides. The pilot further reported that the left main landing gear touched down first, and then the airplane came to an "abrupt" stop a few feet to the right of the runway. A postaccident examination of the airframe reviled substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that he aligned the airplane on final approach with what "appeared" to be the runway with a small snow berm on both the left and right sides. The pilot further reported that the left main landing gear touched down first, and then the airplane came to an "abrupt" stop a few feet to the right of the runway. A postaccident examination of the airframe reviled substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N104AN
- Reported as
- Cessna CE-208 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 208B0918
- Built
- 2001
- Airframe hours
- 14,440.1
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A SER, 675 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Grant Aviation Inc.
- Registered owner
- Avion Capital Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · January 15, 2016
- Departed
- VAK · Chevak, AK
- Destination
- HPB · Hooper Bay, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- HPB · Hooper Bay, runway 13, 3,300 × 75 ft, snow
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Stall warning system
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
- 36
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 9, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 5,331 total · 1,660 in this make and model · 3,824 as pilot in command · 211 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.63 inHg
- Observed at
- PAHP
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 10, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.2 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.