- Date
- June 10, 2000, 20:00 local (Jun 11, 2000, 04:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kodiak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8162CPiper PA-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 2, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20000610042609A
- Case key
- 50966
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions. Factors associated with the accident were a crosswind, and an inadvertent ground loop/swerve.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The certificated private pilot was landing a tundra tire equipped Piper PA-18 airplane on a dry, paved runway, which required a correction for a left crosswind. After touchdown, during the landing roll, the airplane veered to the left. The pilot applied right rudder and right brake to correct the veer. The airplane pivoted 180 degrees to the right, and the right wing struck the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing leading edge, and right wing main spar.
Factual narrative
On June 10, 2000, about 2000 Alaska daylight time, a tundra tire equipped Piper PA-18 airplane, N8162C, sustained substantial damage while landing on a dry, paved runway, at the Kodiak Airport, Kodiak, Alaska. The airplane was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) personal flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. The solo certificated private pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The flight originated about 1910, from the Kodiak Municipal Airport.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board investigator-in-charge on June 11, the pilot reported that he was landing on runway 18, which required a correction for a left crosswind. He said that during the landing roll, the airplane veered to the left. He applied right rudder and right brake to correct the veer. The airplane pivoted 180 degrees to the right, and the right wing struck the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing leading edge, and right wing main spar.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8162C
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-3618
- Airframe hours
- 75
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James L. Venable
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 1, 2000 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- KDK · Kodiak Muni, AK
- Destination
- ADQ · AK
- Airport
- ADQ · Kodiak, runway 18, 5,011 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 319 total · 90 in this make and model · 319 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 112° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 48 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.