Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 15 MAR 2010 |
| Time: | 12:43 |
| Type: | Britten-Norman BN-2A-21 Islander |
| Operator: | Servant Air |
| Registration: | N663SA |
| C/n / msn: | 4 |
| First flight: | 1967 |
| Engines: | 2 Lycoming IO-540-K1B5 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Kodiak Airport, AK (ADQ) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Kodiak Airport, AK (ADQ/PADQ), United States of America |
| Old Harbor Airport, AK (OLH), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 501 |
A Britten-Norman BN-2A-21 Islander passenger plane, registered N663SA, sustained substantial damage in an accident at Kodiak Airport, AK (ADQ). All three on board were injured.
The airplane was taking off from Kodiak runway 25, on a domestic flight to Old Harbor Airport, AK (OLH). The Islander contacted the tops of trees past the end of the runway and came to rest nose down on the ground in a stand of trees, the branches supporting the plane in a vertical position.
Weather reported at the time of the crash was:
2045Z 290 21 G27KT 7SM -SN SCT025 SCT030 BKN 01/M03 A2970 [Wind 290 degrees at 21 knots, gusting to 27 knots; visibility 7 miles; light snow; scattered clouds at 2,500 ft and 3,000 ft; temperature 1 degree C, dew point -3 degrees C]
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PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from rising terrain during takeoff resulting in collision with trees." Sources:
» Broken arm worst injury as trees cushion crashing plane
Broken arm worst injury as trees cushion crashing plane (Anchorage Daily News, 16-3-2010)
» Small plane crashes into trees off Kodiak runway (KTUU, 16-3-2010)
» FAA
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Kodiak Airport, AK to Old Harbor Airport, AK as the crow flies is 75 km (47 miles).
Distance from Kodiak Airport, AK to Old Harbor Airport, AK as the crow flies is 75 km (47 miles).
