- Date
- March 11, 2017, 08:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kalaupapa, HI
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N865MACessna 208
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 17, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20170311002999A
- Case key
- 94884
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Probable cause
The pilot's attempted aborted landing late in the landing sequence because she saw another airplane on the runway facing her with its propeller turning, which resulted in a hard landing, a subsequent loss of directional control, and ground loop.
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
**This report was modified on September 17, 2020. Please see the public docket for this accident to view the original report.** The pilot of the commuter airplane reported that she was going to establish an approach and landing on runway 05 at an airport with a single runway and no taxiways. While on a 7-mile final, she communicated with the pilot of an airplane that was on short final for the same airport. The pilot that was on short final reported that he would report when he was clear of the runway, and he did. The commuter pilot acknowledged the other pilot's clear-of-runway transmission and initiated the approach. As the pilot began the transition to land, she noticed that the airplane that she had communicated with was not clear of the runway. The airplane on the ground was near the runway 23 numbers with the propeller turning facing toward her landing airplane. She aborted the landing, but the airplane did not climb. The airplane impacted the runway hard and bounced. She reported that, when the airplane touched down after the bounce, she "applied left rudder pedal to steer the aircraft off the runway and out of the way of the other aircraft's possible flight path." The airplane exited the left side of the runway and ground-looped to the left. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right side of the fuselage and the right wing. Markings on the runway show the propeller struck the runway multiple times in a low pitch configuration before it became feathered. After the groundloop, the pilot of the airplane near the runway 23 numbers attempted to take off. He was contacted via radio transmission by the airport manager and told that the runway was closed until further notice. According to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety inspector, the FAA’s postaccident examination of the accident airplane determined that there were no preimpact mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have prevented normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N865MA
- Reported as
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 208B0996
- Built
- 2002
- Engine
- P&W PT6A SER, 675 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Schuman Aviation Co. Ltd, doing business as Makana Kai Air
- Registered owner
- Schuman Aviation Co. Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Commuter
- Departed
- PHNL · Honolulu, HI
- Destination
- PHLU · Kalaupapa, HI
- Airport
- LUP · Kalaupapa, runway 05, 2,700 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator
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
- 49
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 28, 2017
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,002 total · 31 in this make and model · 1,674 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- PHMK, 8 nm away
Docket · 10
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 1, 2017, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 43.5 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.
Other investigations on N865MA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.