- Date
- August 4, 1982, 08:40 local (16:40 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4582HPiper PA-17
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 4, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19820804034719A
- Case key
- 69768
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
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - initiated
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Analysis
While landing with a light crosswind, the aircraft veered to the right and the left gear collapsed. There was no evidence of a pre-accident malfunction of failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4582H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-17
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17-7
- Airframe hours
- 2,152
- Engine
- Continental C-65, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Michael J. Fullerton
- Registered owner
- Michael J. Fullerton
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill Field, runway 24, 4,000 × 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
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 335 total · 8 in this make and model · 182 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRI
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.