<< >> NASA ASRS Report 199231, January 1992

Pilot of small aircraft landed on short runway at keb, ak. Braking poor to nil on icy runway. Crosswind to quartering tailwind. Unable to stop aircraft. Steered and drifted into snow berm on left of runway. Aircraft tipped on wing. Some wing damage.

Attributes
ACN	199231
Time
Date	199201
Day	Wed
Local Time Of Day	1201 To 1800
Place
Locale Reference	airport : hom
State Reference	AK
Altitude	agl bound lower : 0 agl bound upper : 0
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Operator	common carrier : air taxi
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft, High Wing, 1 Eng, Fixed Gear
Flight Phase	landing other
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Affiliation	company : air taxi
Function	flight crew : single pilot
Qualification	pilot : commercial pilot : instrument
Experience	flight time last 90 days : 220 flight time total : 2300 flight time type : 220
ASRS Report	199231
Events
Anomaly	other anomaly other anomaly other other anomaly other
Independent Detector	other other : unspecified cockpit
Resolutory Action	none taken : insufficient time
Consequence	Other
Supplementary
Primary Problem	Flight Crew Human Performance
Air Traffic Incident	Pilot Deviation
Situations
Airport	other physical facility

Narrative:

Landing on runway 19 for 3RD time that day. Normal landing (short field) procedure used. Icy runway with crosswind. After landing braking action poor to nil. Wind now crosswind to quartering tailwind. Unable to stop aircraft. End of runway approaching. Mixture pulled to idle cut-off. Steered/drifted to left where left wheel struck snow berm spinning aircraft to the left. Nose wheel struck berm and aircraft tipped onto right wing damaging wing. Passenger ok. Master off. Asked passenger to turn fuel off after I exited. I helped passenger out and offloaded cargo. Help arrived.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PLT OF SMA LANDED ON SHORT RWY AT KEB, AK. BRAKING POOR TO NIL ON ICY RWY. XWIND TO QUARTERING TAILWIND. UNABLE TO STOP ACFT. STEERED AND DRIFTED INTO SNOW BERM ON L OF RWY. ACFT TIPPED ON WING. SOME WING DAMAGE.

Narrative: LNDG ON RWY 19 FOR 3RD TIME THAT DAY. NORMAL LNDG (SHORT FIELD) PROC USED. ICY RWY WITH XWIND. AFTER LNDG BRAKING ACTION POOR TO NIL. WIND NOW XWIND TO QUARTERING TAILWIND. UNABLE TO STOP ACFT. END OF RWY APCHING. MIXTURE PULLED TO IDLE CUT-OFF. STEERED/DRIFTED TO L WHERE L WHEEL STRUCK SNOW BERM SPINNING ACFT TO THE L. NOSE WHEEL STRUCK BERM AND ACFT TIPPED ONTO R WING DAMAGING WING. PAX OK. MASTER OFF. ASKED PAX TO TURN FUEL OFF AFTER I EXITED. I HELPED PAX OUT AND OFFLOADED CARGO. HELP ARRIVED.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2007 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.