- Date
- July 14, 2025, 13:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Egegik, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2638MPiper PA-12
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 9, 2026
- 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
- 20250714015299A
- Case key
- 200821
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 excessive use of brakes during landing roll, which resulted in a nose-over.
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, during the landing roll in a tailwheel-equipped airplane, he inadvertently applied excessive braking and the airplane nosed over, which resulted in substantial damage to the rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2638M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12-981
- Built
- 1946
- Airframe hours
- 3,927
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 2025
- Departed
- King Salmon, AK
- Airport
- NONE · Remote Strip
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
- 29
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Last flight review
- June 5, 2025
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,201.8 total · 25.7 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command · 235.7 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.36 inHg
- Observed at
- AII, 19 nm away
- METAR
- PAII 142056Z AUTO 22006KT 10SM SCT020 OVC031 14/09 A3036 RMK AO2 SLP277 6//// T01390094 53009 PNO $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 9, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.2 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.