Bethel Airport safety profile
30 recorded occurrences at or near Bethel Airport (1985–2025): 13 at the airport, 17 nearby; 3 fatal, 4 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 88 runway incursions at this airport. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2015-05-30 — Yute Air Alaska (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2025-04-09 — ELIJAH AIR LLC — 0.0 km
- 2024-06-03 — GRANT AVIATION INC — 0.0 km
- 2024-06-01 — 0.0 km
- 2021-11-21 — Yute Commuter Service — 0.1 km
- 2019-06-06 — Yukon Helicopters Inc — 4.2 km
- 2019-05-02 — Global Air Concepts Llc — 0.1 km
- 2019-04-12 — Yute Commuter Service — 0.0 km
- 2016-11-12 — STATE OF ALASKA Department Of Public Safety — 2.8 km
- 2013-12-15 — Yute Air Alaska — 0.0 km
- 2013-08-27 — PTARMIGAN AIR LLC — 5.2 km
- 2011-09-17 — 1.7 km
Runways
- 01L/19R: 6,400 ft, ASPH-F, lighted
- 01R/19L: 4,000 ft, ASPH-G
- 12/30: 1,858 ft, GRVL-G, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 107.785 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 0.7 days/year
- Snow: 111.985 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.216% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.