- Date
- May 30, 1987, 14:35 local (22:35 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N177BMCessna 185
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870530017109A
- Case key
- 4853
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Landing gear,tire - otherFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
Nose over
Analysis
The pilot landed on an asphalt surfaced runway with a Cessna 185 airplane that had been modified to accept extremely large 'tundra' tires, which are intended primarily for off-airport and gravel runway landings. The pilot lost directional control during the landing roll and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N177BM
- Reported as
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504157
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William R. Martin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- DLG · Dillingham, AK
- Destination
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ANC · Anchorage International, runway 6L, 10,300 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,565 total · 850 in this make and model · 9,500 as pilot in command · 65 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 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.