- Date
- February 7, 1987, 13:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Clear, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N102TCPiper PA-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870207003979A
- Case key
- 4820
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.
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Landing gear,ski assembly - jammedFactor
Planning/decision - inadequateFactor
Landing gear,main gear attachment - failure,totalFactor
Design stress limits of aircraft - exceededCause
Analysis
The pilot of the ski equipped airplane stated he taxied too fast after landing and damaged the airplane after the right ski toed into a large snow drift on rough surface ice.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N102TC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7909038
- Airframe hours
- 570
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mike T. Vivion
- Registered owner
- Michael T Vivion
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 5, 1986 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- CLF · Clear
N102TCRegistered 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,659 total · 1,074 in this make and model · 2,551 as pilot in command · 85 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.