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8 March 2013

Ace Air Cargo , freight flight 51 Beech 1900C registration N116AX from King Salmon to Dillingham USA with 2 crew members it was approaching Dillingham Municipal airport runway 19 when airplane crashed into a mountain hill about 17nm from airport and altitude 2000 feet.Both crew members were killed

On 14 March 2013 the NTSB released a preliminary report about the accident.You can read here

According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) personnel, as the airplane approached Dillingham, the flight crew requested the RNAV GPS 19 instrument approach to the Dillingham Airport about 0757 from controllers at the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC). The ARTCC specialist on duty subsequently granted the request by issuing the clearance, with instructions to proceed direct to the Initial Approach Fix (IAF) to begin the approach, and to maintain an altitude of 2,000 feet or above. A short time later the flight crew requested to enter a holding pattern at the IAF so that they could contact the Flight Service Station (FSS) for a runway conditions report, and the ARTCC specialist granted that request. The ARTCC specialist then made several attempts to contact the aircraft, but was unsuccessful and subsequently lost radar track on the aircraft.

At the time of accident it was light rain , winds at 17knts gusting to 30 , visibility 7 miles and overcast cloud deck at 1500 feet

On 12 August 2014 the NTSB released the final report.You can read here

metars

PADL 081755Z 09015G23KT 7SM -RASN OVC015 01/00 A2914
PADL 081645Z 10017G30KT 7SM -RA OVC015 01/01 A2909

N116AX

First Flight:1988

Age:25 years

Engines:2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65B

photo from NTSB

crash place