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| Date: | Tuesday 15 February 2005 |
| Time: | 21:08 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 207 |
| Owner/operator: | Flight Alaska Inc. |
| Registration: | N36CF |
| MSN: | 20700269 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-520-F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Kipnuk, Alaska -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Chefornak SPB, AK (CYF/PACK) |
| Kipnuk Airport, AK (KPN/PAKI) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The commercial certificated pilot was landing on a snow-covered runway during night visual meteorological conditions. The pilot indicated that when the nose wheel was lowered to the runway after the main landing gear wheels touched down, the airplane suddenly veered to the left. The airplane departed the left side of the runway, and the left wing struck a snow berm. The nose gear strut was displaced when a strut side brace fractured during the accident, and the left wing received damage to the outboard rib, and leading edge of the wingtip. The pilot reported the wind condition as 140 degrees at 5 knots. The operator's director of maintenance reported that during the repair of the nose gear assembly, he found no evidence of a mechanical malfunction. The runway is 2,120 feet long and 35 feet wide, and the FAA Airport/Facility Directory, Alaska Supplement, states, in part: Unattended. Caution: Runway condition not monitored, recommend visual inspection prior to using. Caution: Frequent crosswinds.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll, which resulted in a departure from the runway and collision with a snow bank. A factor contributing to the accident was snow-covered terrain.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ANC05LA041
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 3 December 1993 | N36CF | Yute Air Alaska, Inc. | 0 | Tuntutuliak, AK | |
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| 17 September 1999 | N36CF | Yute Air Alaska Inc. | 0 | Bethel, AK | |
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| 14 November 2008 | N36CF | Flight Alaska | 0 | Napaskiak, Alaska | |
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| Loss of control | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 10-Oct-2022 17:16 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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