- Date
- September 27, 1984, 00:00 local (08:00 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N3751MPiper PA-12
- Weather
- Not reported
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19840927075839A
- Case key
- 4238
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.
Missing aircraft
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Analysis
The acft departed on 9-27-84 and was reported missing the following day. USAF rcc conducted 140 unsuccessful search missions. No wreckage was ever discovered. Both occupants are presumed to have been fatally injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3751M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 122686
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles Middleton
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 500 total · 100 in this make and model · 410 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Not reported
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.