- Date
- March 9, 1983, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Port Heiden, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N17243Piper PA-28R-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19830309007119A
- Case key
- 4105
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 acft taxied into a pile of ice after landing. According to an Alaska state trooper that assisted in the investigation, the pilot turned 45 degrees to the right and departed the runway 150 feet short of the taxiway. The sun was bright, and according to the pilot, it was blinding him. The collision with the ice collapsed the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N17243
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-30248
- Airframe hours
- 2,365
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B1E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ronald E. Fox
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 9, 1983 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- PIP · Pilot Point, AK
- Airport
- PTH · Port Heiden, runway 5, 6,240 × 150 ft, gravel
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 169 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.