- Date
- November 14, 2007, 17:15 local (Nov 15, 2007, 02:15 UTC)
- Place
- Wasilla, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N439MAAmerican Champion 8GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report April 30, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20071114828459A
- Case key
- 67396
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudged touchdown point during landing.
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 commercial pilot was landing on a snow-covered runway during dusk. The pilot reported that after landing, the airplane's right wheel struck a snow berm on the right side of the runway, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained structural damage to the left wing lift strut and empennage. The pilot noted that there were no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane. He said that a postaccident examination revealed that the runway edge markers on the right side of the runway are situated 28 feet to the right of the runway centerline, and the runway edge markers on the left side of the runway are situated 16 feet to the left of the runway centerline.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N439MA
- Reported as
- American Champion 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 439-2002
- Airframe hours
- 329
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C1G, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ryan J. Nelson
- Registered owner
- Ronald L. Nelson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 2006 · 157.3 hours before
- Departed
- IYS · Wasilla, AK
- Destination
- 4AK6 · Palmer, AK
- Airport
- 4AK6 · Wolf Lake, runway 24, 3,800 × 70 ft, snow
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 496 total · 76 in this make and model · 91 as pilot in command · 63 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.