Status:	Final
Date:	06 DEC 1999
Time:	09:58
Type:	Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
Operator:	Arctic Circle Air Service
Registration:	N5187B
C/n / msn:	208B-0270
First flight:	1991
Total airframe hrs:	6105
Engines:	1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A
Crew:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Total:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Airplane damage:	Substantial
Airplane fate:	Repaired
Location:	near Bethel Airport, AK (BET) (United States of America)
Phase:	Initial climb (ICL)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Bethel Airport, AK (BET/PABE), United States of America
Destination airport:	Marshall Airport, AK (MLL), United States of America
Flightnumber:	30

Narrative:
While departing Bethel (BET) runway 36, about 100 feet (30 m) above the runway, the pilot retracted the flaps to he 10 degrees position. As the airplane climbed to about 200 feet (60 m) above the runway, he retracted the remaining 10 degrees of flaps, and the airplane began to descend. The pilot said full power was already applied to the engine, but the airplane continued to descend. The airplane landed on the runway, about 200 feet from the runway threshold, and continued off the end of the runway, into soft, snow-covered terrain. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the propeller, fuselage, and wings.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's inadequate preflight and his failure to remove snow and airframe ice from the airplane."

Events:

Sources:
» NTSB