- Date
- August 7, 1983, 00:00 local (08:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hope, AK
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N4301ZPiper PA-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830807046679A
- Case key
- 4049
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.
Undetermined
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Analysis
The acft crashed under unknown circumstances. The wreckage was removed after an aerial survey & has not been located.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4301Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-8609
- Engine
- Unknown UNKNOWN, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Daniel Michel
- Registered owner
- Wayne Thorpe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
N4301ZRegistered now · Piper PA-18-150Airframe modelPiper PA-18-150Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.