Merrill Field safety profile
84 recorded occurrences at or near Merrill Field (2008–2026): 39 at the airport, 45 nearby; 7 fatal, 9 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 352 runway incursions at this airport, including 4 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2013-08-24 — LILLY ROBERT W (2 fatalities) — 0.7 km
- 2008-10-01 — BLAKE THOMAS K (2 fatalities) — 0.1 km
- 2018-06-13 (1 fatalities) — 0.1 km
- 2016-09-11 — Hefty Polar Cub (1 fatalities) — 0.1 km
- 2015-12-29 (1 fatalities) — 0.1 km
- 2014-07-02 (1 fatalities) — 0.1 km
- 2010-06-02 (1 fatalities) — 0.1 km
- 2026-02-01 — 0.4 km
- 2025-08-01 — Alaska Air Transit — 0.1 km
- 2025-02-02 — 1.2 km
- 2024-12-31 — ANGEL AVIATION INC — 0.3 km
- 2023-06-18 — 0.1 km
Runways
- 07/25: 4,000 ft, ASP, lighted
- 16/34: 2,640 ft, ASP, lighted
- 04/22: 2,000 ft, GVL
Weather patterns
- Fog: 55.192 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 0.1 days/year
- Snow: 73.49 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0% 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.