Date: | Friday 8 October 1993 |
Time: | 17:35 |
Type: | Douglas C-54G-15-DO (DC-4) |
Owner/operator: | Brooks Air Fuel |
Registration: | N811E |
MSN: | 36080 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Total airframe hrs: | 28585 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2000-4 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Point Lay-Dew Station Airport, AK (PIZ) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Fairbanks International Airport, AK (FAI/PAFA) |
Destination airport: | Point Lay-Dew Station Airport, AK (PIZ/PPIZ) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:When landing on the 3500 feet runway, braking action was nil due to ice on the runway. The captain steered the DC-4 to a dry patch on the left side of the runway. The aircraft veered left when entering the dry patch and ran off the runway. Minimum landing distance on a dry hard runway surface is 4500 feet.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot-in-command's failure to perform proper pre-flight planning by not computing the required landing runway length."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | ANC94LA009 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 year 1 month |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB
Scramble 177
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Kingman Airport, AZ (IGM); July 1989
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