- Date
- November 20, 1972
- Place
- Talkeetna, AK · TALKEETNA, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2580PPiper PA-18
- Status
- Completed · report April 3, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 163289
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3810 72/11/20 TALKEETNA,ALAS PIPER PA-18 CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 42, 3400 TIME - 1115 N2580P PX- 0 0 0 HUNTING TOTAL HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - UNPREPARED AREA DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ACCIDENT SITE WILLOW,ALAS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE FACTOR(S) AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES - AIRPORT CONDITIONS: ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES - AIRPORT CONDITIONS: HIGH VEGETATION REMARKS- LADEN WITH MOOSE MEAT.ATTMPTED TKOFF INADEQUATE AREA.STICKY SNOW SURFACE. FAILED TO CLEAR BRUSH
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2580P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Unprepared Area
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Other investigations on N2580P · 2
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