Incident Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain N28KE,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144782
 
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Date:Monday 2 April 2012
Time:10:55 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic PA31 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain
Owner/operator:Grant Aviation Inc.
Registration: N28KE
MSN: 31-8152049
Year of manufacture:1981
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage: Minor
Location:Dillingham Airport, Dillingham, Alaska -   United States of America
Phase: Landing
Nature:Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:Dillingham Airport, Dillingham, Alaska (PADL)
Destination airport:Togiak Airport, Alaska (PATG)
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
The aircraft, a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain, N28KE, performing flight 441, landed nose-gear up at Dillingham Airport (PADL), Dillingham, Alaska, and sustaining minor damage after the pilot decided to return after he noticed that the front gear was not down when approaching Togiak Airport - PATG.

No injuries to the pilot or passengers were reported.

Sources:

1. https://www.adn.com/2012/04/03/2405718/air-taxi-makes-emergency-landing.html
2. https://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/preliminary_data/events01/media/03_28KE.txt
3. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=28KE&x=0&y=0
4. https://www.flygrant.com/
5. https://abpic.co.uk/images/images/1253376.jpg (photo)

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
03-Apr-2012 16:19 Geno Added
03-Apr-2012 18:35 RobertMB Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Apr-2012 03:20 RobertMB Updated [Time, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
21-Oct-2017 22:00 Dr. John Smith Updated [Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]

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