- Date
- January 11, 2026, 16:03 local (Jan 12, 2026, 01:03 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N669CWPiper PA-31-310
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Ground collision
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 202287
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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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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N669CW
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31-310
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-514
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 11,920
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Theodore Chesley
- Registered owner
- Theodore Chesley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 10, 2026 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- PANC · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- PAMR · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill Fld, runway 07/25, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
N669CWRegistered now · Piper PA-31-310Airframe modelPiper PA-31-310Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 series
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 12 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.23 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Observed at
- AMR, 1 nm away
- METAR
- PAMR 120104Z 01006KT 2SM BR BKN007 OVC024 M11/M13 A2923 RMK AO2 SNE04 P0000 T11111128