Air Pac British Aerospace BAE-146 incident
British Aerospace BAE-146 · Incident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
From Adak Airport (ADK) to Tom Madsen (Dutch Harbor) Airport (DUT)
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC84IA066
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
British Aerospace BAE-146
- Aircraft type
- British Aerospace BAE-146
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N146AP
- Operator
- Air Pac
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Adak Airport (ADK), ADAK, AKTo Tom Madsen (Dutch Harbor) Airport (DUT), Unalaska, AK
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 121: Air Carrier
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control on ground/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Company/operator management › Improper decision
- Company/operator management › Maintenance, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Operation with known deficiencies in equipment, performed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
A 'NO BRAKE CONDITION' WAS EXPERIENCED WHILE THE PLT WAS USING THE YELLOW BRAKE SYS DURING A LANDING. THE NORMAL LANDING PROCEDURE CALLS FOR USING THE GREEN SYS. DURING THE ROLL-OUT, THE PLT SELECTED THE EMERGENCY YELLOW SYS & SUBSEQUENTLY LOCKED THE BRAKES. HE STATED THAT THE YELLOW HYDRAULIC SYS WAS USED BECAUSE OF A PROBLEM WITH THE GREEN SYS ON THE PREVIOUS DAY. ALSO, HE REPORTED THAT MANAGEMENT HAD DECIDED TO USE THE YELLOW SYS. THE SPECIFIC LEVEL OF MANAGEMENT THAT HAD REPORTEDLY MADE THIS DECISION WAS NOT IDENTIFIED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC84IA066
- Event ID
- 20001214X39443
- Case number
- ANC84IA066
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1984-05-12.
- API snapshot SHA-256: f522f307b62c52f45c6784999c40621c82ae40b295ad3a0f8eb24359b2624b69; retrieved 2026-09-18T20:41:46.924Z.