- Date
- May 15, 2026, 16:30 local (May 16, 2026, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Susitna, AK · Sand bar
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4997MPiper PA-11
- Defining event
- Taxi: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20260515004959A
- Case key
- 203000
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
- N4997M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-11
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11-485
- Built
- 1948
- Airframe hours
- 6,334
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Niner-Niner-7-Mike LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PALH · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Equipment
- None
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
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.91 inHg
- Observed at
- PANC, 19 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PANC 152353Z COR 20007KT 10SM FEW045 SCT060 SCT150 12/03 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP129 T01170028 10128 20078 50001
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.