Horizon DH8D at Boise on Oct 19th 2019, bird strike fractures front wing spar web

Last Update: April 27, 2020 / 14:08:11 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 19, 2019

Classification
Report

Cause
Bird strike

Airline
Horizon Air

Flight number
AS-2337

Departure
Boise, United States

Destination
Seattle, United States

Aircraft Registration
N402QX

Aircraft Type
De Havilland Dash 8 (400)

ICAO Type Designator
DH8D

A Horizon Air de Havilland Dash 8-400 on behalf of Alaska Airlines, registration N402QX performing flight AS-2337 from Boise,ID to Seattle,WA (USA) with 80 people on board, was climbing out of Boise's runway 10L when a bird impacted the left hand wing. The crew saw remains of the bird on the left wing, did not observe any difficulties with the controls and decided to continue to Seattle. A post flight inspection revealed the aircraft sustained substantial damage.

On Apr 25th 2020 the NTSB released their final report concluding the probable cause of the accident was:

a bird strike during climb out.

The NTSB wrote:

On October 29, 2019 at 1433 mountain daylight time, Horizon Air as flight 2337, a Bombardier De Havilland DHC8, N402QX, struck a bird during climb out from Boise Airport (KBOI), Boise, Idaho. After the collision, the flight crew saw visual evidence of the bird remains on the left wing, determined there were no indications of control problems, and decided to continue to Seattle/Tacoma International Airport (KSEA), Seattle, Washington, where the flight landed with no further incident. Postflight inspection of the airplane revealed that the the bird impact had partially severed the left wing leading edge composite structure and cracked the front spar web. The flight was operating was operating under 14 CFR Part 121 and there were no injuries to the 80 passengers and crew onboard.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 19, 2019

Classification
Report

Cause
Bird strike

Airline
Horizon Air

Flight number
AS-2337

Departure
Boise, United States

Destination
Seattle, United States

Aircraft Registration
N402QX

Aircraft Type
De Havilland Dash 8 (400)

ICAO Type Designator
DH8D

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