- Date
- August 11, 1966
- Place
- Port Heiden, AK · PORT HEIDEN, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2580PPiper PA-18
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 121338
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3977 66/8/11 PORT HEIDEN ALAS PIPER PA-18 CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 36, 1786 TIME - 1030 N2580P PX- 0 0 1 AIR TAXI-PASSG TOTAL HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - PORT HEIDEN TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL: MUSH TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF FACTOR(S) WEATHER - SUDDEN WINDSHIFT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 5000 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F NONE 58 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 5 VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- PLT ATTEMPTED TAKEOFF FROM LAKE 850 FT.IN LENGTH AT NEAR MAX GROSS WT.WIND 3-5 KTS,VARIABLE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2580P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Port Heiden
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Other investigations on N2580P · 2
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