Accident Cessna 208B Grand Caravan N5187B,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323618

Date:	Monday 6 December 1999
Time:	09:58
Type:	Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
Owner/operator:	Arctic Circle Air Service
Registration:	N5187B
MSN:	208B0270
Year of manufacture:	1991
Total airframe hrs:	6105 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Bethel Airport, AK (BET) - United States of America
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Bethel Airport, AK (BET/PABE)
Destination airport:	Marshall Airport, AK (MLL/PADM)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
While departing Bethel (BET) runway 36, about 100 feet (30 m) above the runway, the pilot retracted the flaps to he 10 degrees position. As the airplane climbed to about 200 feet (60 m) above the runway, he retracted the remaining 10 degrees of flaps, and the airplane began to descend. The pilot said full power was already applied to the engine, but the airplane continued to descend. The airplane landed on the runway, about 200 feet from the runway threshold, and continued off the end of the runway, into soft, snow-covered terrain. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the propeller, fuselage, and wings.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's inadequate preflight and his failure to remove snow and airframe ice from the airplane."

Accident investigation: