- Date
- June 10, 1986, 10:45 local (18:45 UTC)
- Place
- Girdwood, AK
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4418ZPiper PA-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19860610023209A
- Case key
- 4592
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.
Analysis
The instructor pilot gave the student pilot a forced landing while on left base to runway 19. The student continued the approach at approximately 200 feet noticed the rate of descent increasing. The student applied full power but the airplane continued to descend and impacted a steep embankment, 212 feet short of the marked landing threshold. The student stated he was approaching the runway at 65 miles per hour and had no flaps extended.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4418Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-8753
- Airframe hours
- 2,792
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aces Up Aviation
- Registered owner
- C. L. Wiles
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 3, 1986 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Merrill Field, AK
- Airport
- AQY · Girdwood, runway 19, 2,100 × 80 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
- 38
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,907 total · 32 in this make and model · 1,747 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots, gusting 12
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4418Z · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.