Beech V35B accident near Denali Park, AK
On August 5, 2005, a Beech V35B (airplane) was involved in an accident near Denali Park, AK. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- August 5, 2005
- Place
- Denali Park, AK
- Aircraft
- Beech V35B · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 69.730°N, 162.819°W
- NTSB ID
- 20050811X01231
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On August 5, 2005, about 1236 Alaska daylight time, a wheel-equipped Beech V35B airplane, N912DB, was destroyed by impact and postcrash fire when it collided with rising terrain while climbing, about 16 miles south-southeast of the McKinley Park airstrip, Denali National Park, Alaska. The private pilot and sole passenger were fatally injured. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight operated in visual meteorological conditions, and a VFR flight plan was filed. The flight departed Fairbanks, Alaska, about 1150, with an intended destination of Anchorage, Alaska. The airplane was owned and operated by the pilot. The accident airplane was part of a group of ten airplanes flying from Washington and California on an aerial tour of Alaska. The group leader had taken several previous pilot groups in their own airplanes on flights to Alaska. He had also flown commercially in Alaska for several years, and at the time of the accident, operated a tour group business called "Let's Fly Alaska", in which pilots provided their own airplanes, and traveled as a group throughout Alaska before returning to their respective bases in Washington and California. The group initially met in Puyallup, Washington, and left for Alaska on August 1. Most members of the group had attended a preflight safety briefing given the morning of the accident at the Fairbanks transient pilot's lounge by the group leader and an FAA aviation safety inspector. The FAA inspector was the designated area safety program manager for the Fairbanks Flight Standards District Office. According to the group leader a
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain altitude/clearance from mountainous terrain while climbing, and his improper in-flight decision making by electing to fly at a low altitude toward rising terrain. A factor associated with the accident was mountainous terrain.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
