- Date
- May 14, 1982, 08:41 local (16:41 UTC)
- Place
- Gulkana, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6952KPiper PA-20S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 14, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19820514043669A
- Case key
- 70925
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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Analysis
The owner, a private pilot, was getting dual instructional training in his tailwheel equipped aircraft. The aircraft was a Piper PA-20 that had been converted from a model PA-22. The owner had accumulated about 10 hours of flight time in this make and model. The accident occurred when the aircraft ground looped during a practice landing. The instructor pilot (ip) reported that the owner/trainee was doing so well with his practice that he (the ip) just relaxed. Reportedly after the aircraft touched down, it was going straight, and the ip thought the plane was under control, when it started to move slightly to the right. The trainee started to correct with left rudder, but the movement to the right continued. The ip then tried to correct the impending ground loop, but was unable. The left main gear collapsed and the left wing was damaged.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6952K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-57
- Airframe hours
- 3,325
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles F. Chamberlain
- Registered owner
- Huston C. Rick
- Departed
- GKN · Gulkana, AK
- Destination
- GKN · Gulkana, AK
- Airport
- GKN · Gulkana, runway 14, 4,200 × 100 ft, asphalt
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 5,066 total · 150 in this make and model · 5,050 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 1 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 95 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GKN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.