# Accident 20050706017309A: Piper PA18150, Sterling, AK, July 6, 2005

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 6, 2005, 13:00 local time
- Place: Sterling, AK
- Airport: South Gasline Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 60.5000° N, 150.3333° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=60.5000&lon=-150.3333&mi=10
- Aircraft: N18VF (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA18150
- Reported engine: LYC O320*
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 217 total, 140 in this make and model, 55 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB ANC05CA096](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC05CA096) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20050706017309A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) PILOT STATED THAT ON A PART 91 FLIGHT FROM MCCARTY BAY TO MERRILL FIELD, THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE WAS EXPERIENCING CARBURETOR ICING. HE WOULD CLEAR THIS WITH CARB HEAT. AT ONE POINT THE ENGINE WAS RUNNING ROUGH AND THE CARB HEAT DID NOT SEEM TO BE WORKING. PILOT ELECTED TO MAKE A PRECAUTIONARY LANDING AT THE SOUTH GASLINE STRIP. HE SAID HE OVERFLEW THE AIRPORT, AND LANDED INTO THE WIND. ON SHORT FINAL, ABOUT 50 FEET FROM THE GROUND, PILOT SAID THE WINDS WERE GUSTY, THE AIRCRAFT DESCENDED ABRUPTLY, AND THE LEFT WING CAUGHT THE BRUSH ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE APPROACH COURSE. THE AIRCRAFT THEN GROUNDLOOPED TO THE RIGHT, DAMAGING THE RIGHT WING AND AILERON. THERE WERE NO INJURIES TO THE PILOT, THE ONLY SOUL ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB ANC05CA096](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC05CA096), Jul 6, 2005: Piper PA-18-160 (N18VF), Hope, AK, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's misjudged distance and altitude during an approach to land at an off-airport landing site, which resulted in an undershoot, and subsequent in-flight collision with trees and…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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