- Date
- February 21, 1987, 11:40 local (15:40 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5135HPiper PA-14
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870221003129A
- Case key
- 4822
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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 student pilot was practicing touch and go landings on a runway partially covered with snow and ice when he lost control of the aircraft and struck a runway perimeter snow berm. And nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5135H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-14
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 14-145
- Airframe hours
- 1,332
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leo A. Miller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 29, 1986 · 32 hours before
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill Field, runway 24, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 53
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 27 total · 27 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANC
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 N5135H · 4
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.