ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 322877
| Date: | Sunday 2 March 2003 |
| Time: | 15:04 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Owner/operator: | Bering Air |
| Registration: | N205BA |
| MSN: | 208B0890 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2001 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2082 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,6 km W of Kotzebue Airport, AK (OTZ) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Shungnak Airport, AK (SHG/PAGH) |
| Kotzebue Airport, AK (OTZ/PAOT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After having been cleared to enter the Kotzebue airspace, the pilot established a GPS waypoint 4 miles (6,4 km) from runway 08 and descended to 1,000 feet. He continued inbound and descended to an altitude of 300 feet. At one mile from the airport, the pilot said he looked up from the instrument panel but could not see the airport. He also stated that he was in a whiteout condition. The airplane collided with the snow-covered sea ice, short of the runway threshold.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's continued VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions, and his failure to maintain altitude/clearance above the ground, resulting in a collision with snow and ice covered terrain during the final approach phase of a VFR landing. Factors in the accident were whiteout conditions and snow-covered terrain."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ANC03LA029
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