- Date
- July 7, 2020, 20:30 local (Jul 8, 2020, 04:30 UTC)
- Place
- Farewell Lakes, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N134CStinson 108
- Defining event
- Takeoff-rejected takeoff: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20200708004799A
- Case key
- 101661
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Probable cause
The pilot's delayed decision to abort the takeoff roll, which resulted in a runway overrun and airplane nose over.
Findings · 3
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 during the takeoff roll on the soft turf surface private airstrip, the airplane did not accelerate fast enough. About midfield, he aborted the takeoff roll by closing the throttle and he applied the brakes. However, the airplane overran the departure end of the airstrip and the main landing gear collided with a spruce tree stump. The airplane nosed over substantially damaging the rudder and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N134C
- Reported as
- Stinson 108 (2)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108-3134
- Built
- 1947
- Airframe hours
- 2,838.2
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4-165-B3, 165 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 6, 2020
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- PVT · Farewell Lake, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- PVT · Private Airstrip, runway NW, 1,500 × 50 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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
- 42
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 13, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 4,800 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 0.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.90 inHg
- Observed at
- PAFW, 1 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 9, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.8 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 N134C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.