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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Piper PA-20 · Chitina, AK · July 23, 1989

Date
July 23, 1989 · 15:45 local
Place
Chitina, AK
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N7400K
NTSB investigation
NTSBANC89LA128
Reported as
Piper PA20
Reported engine
Lycoming O320*
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
487 total181 in this make and model97 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 an unimproved strip rolled into a depression and airplane nosed over.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED ON AN UNIMPROVED STRIP ROLLED INTO A DEPRESSION AND AIRPLANE NOSED OVER.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.