- Date
- June 23, 2000, 11:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wasilla, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2514DCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report May 17, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20000623042399A
- Case key
- 50971
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing. A factor associated with the accident is the pilot's excessive use of the brakes.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
According to an FAA inspector who arrived at the accident site within a few minutes of the accident, the pilot related she was practicing touch and go landings. On her sixth landing, she lost directional control, the airplane veered to the right, and she applied the brakes. The airplane nosed down upon the application of brakes, the right wing struck the ground, and the airplane went off the right side of the runway.
Factual narrative
On June 23, 2000, about 1100 Alaska daylight time, a Cessna 170B airplane, N2514D, sustained substantial damage while landing at the New Wasilla Airport, Wasilla, Alaska. The private pilot and the one passenger were not injured. The local, 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, operated in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. The flight departed Merrill Field, Anchorage, Alaska, about 1000.
About 1110 on June 23, the NTSB investigator-in-charge (IIC) was called by an FAA Anchorage flight standards district office inspector from the accident site. The inspector related he was at the New Wasilla Airport, and saw a cloud of dust near the runway. He said when he went to investigate, he discovered the accident airplane off the right side of runway 3, resting on its nose and main landing gear. According to the inspector, the pilot said she was practicing touch and go landings on runway 3, and had completed five prior to the accident landing. During the accident landing, she made a three-point touchdown. The airplane veered sharply to the right, and she applied the brakes. The airplane nosed down on brake application, and struck the right wing on the runway. The FAA inspector noted substantial damage to ribs near the wingtip on the right wing. He also said he examined the wheels and brakes, and found no mechanical anomalies with them.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2514D
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20666
- Airframe hours
- 2,351
- Engine
- Continental C145, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Marnie L. Starck
- Registered owner
- Adolph Hinson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 7, 2000 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- IYS · New Wasilla, runway 3, 3,700 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 170 total · 152 in this make and model · 113 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N2514D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.