19870511024509I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18-150 · Anchorage, AK · May 11, 1987

Date
May 11, 1987 · 06:45 local
Place
Anchorage, AK
Airport
Merrill Field
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9285Y
Reported as
Piper PA18150
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
25,000 total5,000 in this make and model100 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Ski equipped aircraft landed on the grass and decelerated faster than anticipated. Nosed up.

As the FAA filed it

SKI EQUIPPED AIRCRAFT LANDED ON THE GRASS AND DECELERATED FASTER THAN ANTICIPATED. NOSED UP.