ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 285479
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| Date: | Saturday 8 November 2008 |
| Time: | 16:49 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172M |
| Owner/operator: | Aero Tech Flight Service Inc |
| Registration: | N9099H |
| MSN: | 17265943 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320 SERIES |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Girdwood, Alaska -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Girdwood Airport, AK (AQY) |
| Anchorage-Merrill Field, AK (MRI/PAMR) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight instructor was on an instructional flight with a student pilot and decided to land at a different airport prior to returning to the departure airport. He said that while above the airport where he intended to land he received a report from another pilot that there were 4-5 inches of snow on the runway. He made a successful soft-field landing and taxied back to the threshold to demonstrate a soft-field takeoff. The pilot said the airplane accelerated slowly on takeoff, and did not reach rotation speed before running through the runway end markers. He said the airplane continued down an embankment and came to rest in a creek. He said there were no known mechanical problems with the airplane prior to the accident and that the airplane sustained damage to the wings and fuselage. In a written statement, the pilot wrote that the accident could have been avoided by not landing on a runway with more than an inch of snow.
Probable Cause: The pilot's decision to attempt to take off on a snow-covered runway. Contributing to the accident was the snow-covered runway.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ANC09CA010
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 02-Oct-2022 10:17 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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