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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18A RESTRICTED · Toolik River, AK · August 25, 2011

Date
August 25, 2011 · 15:00 local
Place
Toolik River, AK
Airport
Galbraith Lake
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
X9ZC
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1936A
Reported as
Piper PA-18A Restricted
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
6,200 total2,500 in this make and model170 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.

Pilot states that after landing on a tundra patch to pick up clients he was turning around and the right tire entered an unseen ditch lowering the nose of the aircraft enough to allow the prop to strike the edge of the ditch.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STATES THAT AFTER LANDING ON A TUNDRA PATCH TO PICK UP CLIENTS HE WAS TURNING AROUND AND THE RIGHT TIRE ENTERED AN UNSEEN DITCH LOWERING THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE PROP TO STRIKE THE EDGE OF THE DITCH.