- Date
- December 14, 1988, 15:05 local (19:05 UTC)
- Place
- Kasaan, AK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89Ude Havilland DHC-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 8, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881214054129A
- Case key
- 40909
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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
The plt planned to land at a seaplane base that was located in a bowl-shaped cove. Drg the landing, the acft touched down long on water swells & the plt elected to go around. Witnesses rprtd that drg the go-around, the plt initiated a steep turn while still at low alt to avoid buildings & rising terrain. However, the acft entered a steep dscnt & crashed on a wooden walkway along the shoreline near the seaplane dock. No preimpact part failure or malfunction of the acft or eng was evident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89U
- Reported as
- de Havilland DHC-2
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 160
- Airframe hours
- 15,639
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Ketchikan Air Service
- Registered owner
- Ketchikan Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1988 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- KTB · Thorne River, AK
- Destination
- KXA
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- KXA · Kasaan Spb
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,752 total · 1,565 in this make and model · 2,543 as pilot in command · 302 in the last 90 days · 76 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KTN, 26 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.