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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18-150 · Sparrevohn, AK · August 17, 1987

Date
August 17, 1987 · 09:30 local
Place
Sparrevohn, AK
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3288Z
Reported as
Piper PA18150
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,450 total1,000 in this make and model150 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.

Landed on a glacier. While taxiing to park, hit a soft spot and nosed over.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED ON A GLACIER. WHILE TAXIING TO PARK, HIT A SOFT SPOT AND NOSED OVER.

Other reports on N3288Z · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.