ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 296607
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| Date: | Friday 20 September 2002 |
| Time: | 07:15 LT |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver |
| Owner/operator: | Ptarmigan Air |
| Registration: | N144Q |
| MSN: | 1465 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7850 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-985 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bethel, Alaska -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Bethel Airport, AK (BET/PABE) |
| Bethel Airport, AK (BET/PABE) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The certificated flight instructor, seated in the right seat, reported that he was providing flight instruction/familiarization training a commercial pilot, seated in the left seat, in a float-equipped airplane. The instructor added that the accident flight was the first flight of the day. He said that just after takeoff, as the airplane climbed to about 50 feet above the water, the airplane began to buffet, and the right wing dropped. The airplane descended and subsequently struck an area of tundra-covered marshy terrain. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wings, fuselage, and empennage. The instructor reported that a postaccident inspection of the airplane revealed an accumulation of frost on the wings.
Probable Cause: The instructor pilot's inadequate preflight by his failure to remove all frost from the wings prior to takeoff, which resulted in an inadvertent stall and in-flight collision with terrain.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ANC02LA123
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 14-Oct-2022 08:34 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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