- Date
- April 22, 1989, 13:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N90918Piper PA-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19890422010109A
- Case key
- 5178
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll.
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
On landing the pilot lost directional control of the airplane which subsequently ground looped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90918
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 188109044
- Airframe hours
- 1,320
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard Bennett
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1989 · 6 hours before
- Airport
- EDF · Elmendorf, runway 5, 10,000 × 200 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 5,200 total · 150 in this make and model · 5,100 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 6 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 46 °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 N90918 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.