- Date
- July 23, 1989, 15:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Chitina, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7400KPiper PA-20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19890723024779A
- Case key
- 5230
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing area and delay in slowing the airplane after landing. A factor in the accident was the rough/uneven terrain.
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
Near the end of the landing roll during an off-airport landing, the airplane's main wheels went into a shallow depression that crossed the landing area, causing the airplane to nose over onto its back. The pilot stated that he should have applied brakes earlier during the landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7400K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-308
- Airframe hours
- 3,917
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Strauss, Scott H.
- Registered owner
- S.H. Strauss/T.N. Hand
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 20, 1989 · 28 hours before
- Departed
- GKN · Gulkana, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 487 total · 181 in this make and model · 406 as pilot in command · 97 in the last 90 days · 59 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point -0 °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.