- Date
- July 27, 1988, 11:19 local (19:19 UTC)
- Place
- Northway, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5327DCessna 180A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 9, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880727028209A
- Case key
- 5041
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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 landing at Northway, AK., when the airplane ground-looped to the left. He reportedly had also ground-looped the same airplane when he landed at whitehorse, Canada, just prior to the landing at Northway. A post-accident inspection of the airplane discovered that the right rudder return spring was not connected, causing the airplane to veer to the left upon touchdown. The pilot had recently purchased the airplane and was on a pleasure flight to Alaska. His total tail-wheel experience at the time of the accident was about 35 hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5327D
- Reported as
- Cessna 180A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 50225
- Airframe hours
- 3,796
- Engine
- Continental O-470-K, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leslie Robert Tupper
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 3, 1987 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- H-1C · Whitehorse
- Destination
- ORT · Northway, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ORT · Northway, runway 4, 5,100 × 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 500 total · 35 in this make and model · 470 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORT
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 N5327D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.