- Date
- July 9, 1988, 14:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N2487DCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880709025939A
- Case key
- 5026
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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 pilot of a Cessna 170 lost directional control and ground looped while taxiing for take off. The FAA control tower had instructed the pilot to taxi behind a taxiing B-727, and issued caution: wake turbulence. The idle power of the B-727 caused the Cessna 170 pilot to lose control. The left wing of the Cessna was lifted into the air. The aircraft came to rest on its nose and left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2487D
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20639
- Airframe hours
- 4,312
- Engine
- Continental O-300A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Luchini, Bob
- Registered owner
- Star Electric Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 26, 1988 · 94 hours before
- Airport
- ANC · Anchorage
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 356 total · 265 in this make and model · 321 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANC, 1 nm away
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 N2487D · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.