ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 294181
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| Date: | Friday 14 January 2005 |
| Time: | 11:00 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna U206F |
| Owner/operator: | West Isle Air |
| Registration: | N8313Q |
| MSN: | U20603174 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Prevost, Washington -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Anacortes, WA (74S) |
| Prevost, WA (2WA3) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot did a "fly-over" to check out the runway conditions including wind direction and speed. He said that the runway was clear of snow, and there was no indication of ice or frost. The pilot said that the winds in the nearby bay appeared to be 10 knots or less. He said that immediately after touchdown the airplane felt like it had no traction; braking action was poor to none. He said that after several hundred feet of ground roll, he felt a "strong" gust of wind on his tail. The pilot said that he decided to swerve north of the runway rather than impact the trees on the end of the runway. He impacted a soft mound of dirt which was not initially visible, "thus causing the airplane to slowly nose over." The airplane's left strut was broken, the left wing was bent aft, the engine firewall and chin were crushed, and the aft fuselage was crushed and bent.
Probable Cause: The pilot not identifying unsafe landing conditions, and his subsequent intentional swerve during the landing roll resulting in impacting a ditch. Contributing factors were the ice/frost on the grass/dirt one-way runway (1,560 feet in length), the unexpected tail wind gust, and the ditch he encountered after he swerved to avoid going past the end of the runway into trees.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB SEA05LA036
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 August 1996 | N8313Q | West Isle Air | 0 | Crane Island, WA | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 10-Oct-2022 18:16 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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