- Date
- May 10, 1984, 12:24 local (20:24 UTC)
- Place
- Dillingham, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7569DPiper PA-18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19840510016569A
- Case key
- 4285
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Landing gear,normal brake system - inoperativeFactor
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt lost directional during landing roll with two pax in the rear seats. He stated that the right brake failed after touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7569D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-5854
- Airframe hours
- 3,500
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Reinhold Thiele
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 25, 1984 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- Nunavarchak Bch, AK
- Destination
- DLG · Dillingham, AK
- Airport
- DLG · Dillingham, runway 1, 6,404 × 150 ft, macadam
N7569DRegistered 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
- 57
- Certificates
- Private, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DLG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.