- Date
- July 5, 1984, 12:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Curry, AK
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2875MPiper PA-12
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19840705029969A
- Case key
- 4320
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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 acft swerved on the over grown rwy and when the plt partially corrected the swerving the acft went off the rwys end and nosed over. The plt said he had checked the airstrip out on a solo flt and had no problems. When he returned to the unmaintained strip with a passenger and had a directional control problem he mantained partial control but could not prevent the nose over. The brush on the strip was about shoulder height on an average man.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2875M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12-1404
- Airframe hours
- 2,120
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Theodore F. White
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 25, 1984 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- TKA · Talkeetna, AK
- Destination
- Curry, AK
- Airport
- Curry
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 621 total · 103 in this make and model · 577 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Temperature
- 61 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.