- Date
- September 16, 2022, 12:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2340SPiper PA-18-150
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220916016239A
- Case key
- 105967
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 inadvertent application of the brakes during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose-over and substantial damage to the rudder and wings.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
According to the pilot, during the landing roll the airplane pitched nose forward and came to rest inverted on the runway, which resulted in substantial damage to the rudder and wings. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation and stated that the accident may have been the result of inadvertent application of the heel brakes.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2340S
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-7909134
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 2,426
- Engine
- Continental O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Acme Cub
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 4, 2022
- Departed
- PALH · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- None · Mountain
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private, Flight instructor, Airline transport, Military
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 9, 2021
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 5,850 total · 16 in this make and model · 2,836 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 26, 2022
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 640 total · 80 in this make and model · 600 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- PANC, 33 nm away
- METAR
- PANC 161953Z 06004KT 10SM FEW002 BKN070 OVC120 08/07 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP143 T00830072
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 20, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.7 MB in all.
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 N2340S · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.