ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 322308
| Date: | Monday 24 October 2005 |
| Time: | 14:00 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Owner/operator: | Bering Air |
| Registration: | N1263Y |
| MSN: | 208B0731 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1999 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7259 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 27 km S of Unalakleet, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Stebbins Airport, AK (WBB) |
| Unalakleet Airport, AK (UNK/PAUN) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During the positioning flight back to Unalakleet the pilot descended for low level flight seeing. The pilot's attention was diverted to a noise in the cabin. The pilot told that when he redirected his attention outside, the airplane collided with the brush and tundra covered terrain.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's failure to maintain altitude/clearance from terrain while performing a low altitude maneuver."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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