- Date
- June 25, 1987, 09:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Ketchikan, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1454Tde Havilland DHC-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870625050419A
- Case key
- 40647
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
On landing at Ketchikan airport the pilot stated he made a last minute runway change due to departing traffic. Turning base the pilot reduced power to idle. He then advanced the throttle and received no response. The pilot could not make the runway and elected to make a water landing with the landing gear down. On landing the aircraft flipped over inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1454T
- Reported as
- de Havilland DHC-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1625TB15
- Airframe hours
- 11,822
- Engine
- P&W PT6A20, 500 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Ketchikan Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Ketchikan Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Clover Bay, AK
- Destination
- KTN
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 46
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19,750 total · 19,600 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KTN, 1 nm away
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 N1454T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.