19871005073059I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18-135 · Sparrevohn, AK · October 5, 1987

Date
October 5, 1987 · 19:30 local
Place
Sparrevohn, AK
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N7597K
Reported as
Piper PA18135
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
530 total320 in this make and model191 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.

Parked aircraft was flipped over by the wind after landing on a ridge.

As the FAA filed it

PARKED AIRCRAFT WAS FLIPPED OVER BY THE WIND AFTER LANDING ON A RIDGE.