| On April 15, 2005, about 1315 Alaska daylight time, a ski-equipped de Havilland DHC-2 airplane, N8190Y, sustained substantial damage during an on-ground encounter with terrain while taxiing from landing on a glacier, about 50 miles northwest of Talkeetna, Alaska. The airplane was being operated by Talkeetna Air Taxi, Talkeetna, as a visual flight rules (VFR) on-demand charter flight under Title 14, CFR Part 135, when the accident occurred. The airline transport pilot was not injured, and the two passengers received minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and company flight following procedures were in effect. The flight departed Talkeetna about 1245.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC) on April 18, the pilot said that after landing, while taxiing to an area of the glacier to unload the passengers and cargo, he noticed a crevasse in his taxi path. He said he was unable to avoid the crevasse, and applied power to "leap-frog" over the crevasse. He said when the airplane landed on the opposite side of the crevasse, the right main landing gear collapsed, and the right wing struck the snow. The right wing and forward fuselage sustained structural damage. The pilot said there were no known preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane.
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