- Date
- August 14, 1989, 18:30 local (Aug 15, 1989, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- Rainy Pass, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3669NPiper PA-12
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19890814032419A
- Case key
- 5239
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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Probable cause
Pilot-in-command's failure to maintain control of the airplane during landing, due to misjudgement of airspeed and distance to the landing touch-down point.
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
During touchdown the airplane stalled and crashed short of the landing area because the plt misjudged his airspeed & distance from the landing area.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3669N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12-1920
- Airframe hours
- 5,000
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Humble, Vernn C.
- Registered owner
- Veron Humble
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 31, 1989 · 100 hours before
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,757 total · 250 in this make and model · 3,641 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.