- Date
- January 13, 1988, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Chugiak, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4379UCessna 150D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880113000489A
- Case key
- 4979
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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Analysis
The flight instructor stated the student landed back on the runway after a practice engine failure; at that point the flight instructor realized how slick the runway was and the aircraft exited the departure end of the runway into a snow bank.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4379U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15060379
- Airframe hours
- 1,926
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ptarmigan Aviation
- Registered owner
- Donald Baer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 3, 1987 · 30 hours before
- Airport
- Z15 · Birchwood, runway 1, 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
- 39
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,706 total · 452 in this make and model · 1,514 as pilot in command · 89 in the last 90 days · 45 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 23 °F, dew point 19 °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 N4379U · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.