- Date
- March 3, 1983, 14:55 local (18:55 UTC)
- Place
- Chugiak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N704VTCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830303008319A
- Case key
- 4104
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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 & his instructor had just completed a dual instruction flt & the student was on his 1st solo. He took off from the uncontrolled arpt which had snow on the rwy, except the middle 10 ft of the rwy was clear & dry. As the student was in the pattern for a touch-and-go landing, a Taylorcraft had stopped on the rwy & its eng had stopped. One of the occupants of the Taylorcraft got out of the cockpit & prop started it. In the meantime, 2 other acft in the pattern, that were ahead of the student, made go-arounds. The student plt did not see the Taylorcraft on the rwy until he had landed & had started to takeoff on the touch-and-go. When he saw the other acft, the student cut the power to abort & began braking. The acft veered to the left, hit a snowbank & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N704VT
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078914
- Airframe hours
- 3,478
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- James Heirston
- Registered owner
- James Heirston
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- Z15 · Birchwood, runway 1, 4,000 × 100 ft, macadam
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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 26 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 21 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.