Accident · 1999-08-20
What the record says
- Event date
- 1999-08-20
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- No injuries
- Aircraft
- de Havilland DHC-3T (N888KA)
- Operating rule
- Part 135
- Operator
- KETCHUM AIR SERVICE Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- KETCHUM AIR SERVICE, INC.
Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent retraction of the trailing edge flaps during the takeoff run.
Source: NTSB case ANC99LA122Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.