- Date
- December 1, 1970
- Place
- Glennallen, AK · GLENNALLEN, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3945ZPiper PA-18
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 159162
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4314 70/12/1 GLENNALLEN,ALAS PIPER PA-18 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 41, 7100 TIME - 1100 N3945Z PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 7000 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION EUREKA ALAS NELCHINA GLACIR ALAS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - SNOW-COVERED TERRAIN - HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS REMARKS- HIT ROCK COVERED BY SNOW.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3945Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N3945ZRegistered now · Piper PA-18-150Airframe modelPiper PA-18-150Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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Other investigations on N3945Z · 1
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