- Date
- March 24, 1986, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fairbanks, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7145KPiper PA-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19860324007689A
- Case key
- 4647
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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 flight instructor stated that he was demonstrating a stall landing to the student pilot. After touchdown and rollout the aircraft struck a snow drift on the runway causing the aircraft to nose over on its back.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7145K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18365
- Airframe hours
- 3,746
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joe B. Hoy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 14, 1985 · 6 hours before
- Airport
- MTF · Metro, runway 6, 4,400 × 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
- 60
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 11,097 total · 4,000 in this make and model · 11,087 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 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 N7145K · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.