- Date
- September 18, 2024, 17:40 local (Sep 19, 2024, 01:40 UTC)
- Place
- Dillingham, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6847BPiper PA-22-150
- Defining event
- Taxi: 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
- FAA report
- 20240918013769A
- Case key
- 195280
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 failure to maintain directional control while taxiing in gusting wind conditions.
Findings · 3
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
The pilot reported that, while taxiing a tailwheel-equipped airplane in strong and gusty wind conditions, and as he turned the airplane 180° downwind, a strong gust of wind lifted the tail, and it subsequently nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing lift struts and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6847B
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-4146
- Built
- 1956
- Airframe hours
- 4,716.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360A2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 22, 2024 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- Aleknagik, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS
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
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 18, 2024
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,760 total · 1,910.3 in this make and model · 2,760 as pilot in command · 268.4 in the last 90 days · 244 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 60 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.55 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Observed at
- PADL
- METAR
- PADL 190056Z 27016G23KT 10SM FEW030 13/05 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP122 T01280050,M
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 5, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.2 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 N6847B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.