- Date
- December 11, 2005, 15:47 local (23:47 UTC)
- Place
- Snohomish, WA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2697XCessna TP206A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20051211029249A
- Case key
- 62938
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Probable cause
The pilot's higher than normal airspeed on landing which resulted in a runway overrun. Contributing factors were the fog and the wet runway surface.
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
According to the pilot, she dropped her load of skydivers and was coming in for a landing. She "could see fog rolling in fast" and knew she "had to get...on the ground." She "landed at a higher speed which is normally fine but because of the runway conditions, which were slick, [she] had minimal braking and ran out of runway." The airplane overran the runway, struck a fence and came to rest in a ditch.
Factual narrative
On December 11, 2005, at 1547 Pacific standard time, a Cessna TP206A, N2697X, sustained substantial damage when it impacted a fence and encountered a ditch during a runway overrun on landing at Harvey Field Airport, Snohomish, Washington. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant, received minor injuries. The airplane was registered to and operated by Skydive Snohomish. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the local skydiving flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. The flight departed Harvey Field about 1530.
According to the pilot, she dropped her load of skydivers and was coming in for a landing on runway 14. She "could see fog rolling in fast" and knew she "had to get...on the ground." She "landed at a higher speed which is normally fine but because of the runway conditions, which were slick, [she] had minimal braking and ran out of runway." The airplane overran the runway, struck a fence and came to rest in a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2697X
- Reported as
- Cessna TP206A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P206-0197
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-C, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Skydiving · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Skydive Snohomish
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- S43 · Snohomish, WA
- Airport
- S43 · Harvey Field, runway 14
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 1,100 total · 50 in this make and model · 200 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.