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| Date: | Saturday 28 June 2003 |
| Time: | 10:40 LT |
| Type: |  Swearingen SA-226T Merlin III |
| Owner/operator: | F S Air Service Inc. |
| Registration: | N512FS |
| MSN: | T-299 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5746 hours |
| Engine model: | Garrett TPE 331 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | GOODNEWS, Alaska -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Anchorage-Ted Stevens International Airport, AK (ANC/PANC) |
| Goodnews Bay Airport, AK (GNU) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The captain, the non-flying pilot seated in the right seat, and the first officer, the flying pilot seated in the left seat, were landing a twin engine turboprop airplane at a remote airport at the conclusion of an air taxi flight. The flight was conducted on an IFR flight plan to a nearby airport, and then proceeded VFR, 9.5 miles to the destination airport that has a gravel surface runway, 2,835 feet long and 80 feet wide. The crew reported that a stabilized landing approach was conducted to runway 05 at a reference (REF) airspeed plus 10 knots, with a 5 knot crosswind. The copilot indicated that during the landing, the airplane encountered a severe downdraft and contacted the ground about 100 feet short of the runway threshold. The captain indicated a wind shear of 8 knots was encountered. The closest official weather observation station is located 32 nautical miles south of the accident site. It was reporting, in part: Wind, 180 degrees (true) at 16 knots, gusts to 26 knots. A passenger, who stated he was a meteorologist by training, reported the wind during the landing approach was a direct right crosswind between 12 and 15 knots, with gusts to 20 knots.
Probable Cause: The flight crew's inadequate evaluation of the weather conditions, which resulted in their inadequate compensation for the wind conditions, and subsequent undershoot. A contributing factor in the accident was a downdraft.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ANC03LA062
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 December 2002 | N55ZP | F S Air Service Inc | 0 | Soldotna, Alaska | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 13-Oct-2022 10:43 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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