- Date
- March 1, 1991, 12:26 local (16:26 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2636APiper PA-20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19910301003809A
- Case key
- 5471
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control.
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
Ths student pilot stated that during touchdown he lost control of the airplane. The airplane then exited the right side of the runway into a snow bank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2636A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-948
- Airframe hours
- 3,907
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hickok, Bruce D.
- Registered owner
- Hickok, Bruce D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 14, 1990 · 103 hours before
- Airport
- Z41 · Lake Hood Strip, runway 31, 2,200 × 80 ft, gravel
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 81 total · 80 in this make and model · 30 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 90 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 32 °F
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 N2636A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.