- Date
- June 12, 1982, 22:00 local (Jun 13, 1982, 06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chugiak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N2340SPiper PA-18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 12, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 70245
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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.
Analysis
The student plt contacted his flight instructor by phone on the day of the accident & informed him that he was going to use his own acft for a fishing trip. He also stated that a commercially rated plt would be going along & would be flyingthe acft. The passenger had a student plt certificate & had made application for ownership 2 days before the accident. The acft impacted in a near vertical attitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2340S
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-7909134
- Airframe hours
- 461
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Brian L. & Debra D. Dickey
- Registered owner
- Brian L. & Debra D. Dickey
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
- 24
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 47 in this make and model · 35 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
Other investigations on N2340S · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.