- Date
- June 30, 1988, 19:15 local (Jul 1, 1988, 03:15 UTC)
- Place
- Hooper Bay, AK
- Injuries
- 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N15268Piper PA-32
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880630027109A
- Case key
- 5022
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.
Analysis
The commercially certificated pilot was attempting to land in winds estimated as 30 knots gusting to 40. He reportedly hit a downdraft just piror to landing and had a harder than normal touchdown. During the later stages of the landing roll-out, he applied the brakes and the left main gear leg collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15268
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 327340029
- Airframe hours
- 1,881
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-KIA5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Delta Air Service
- Registered owner
- Delta Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 15, 1988 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- 2Z0 · Emmonak, AK
- Destination
- HPB · Hooper Bay, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- HPB · Hooper Bay, runway 31, 3,600 × 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,586 total · 520 in this make and model · 9,506 as pilot in command · 231 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 30 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.