- Date
- September 6, 2022, 17:00 local (Sep 7, 2022, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Galena, AK · Sand Bar
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N590DCPiper PA-18-150
- Defining event
- Landing: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20220906015729A
- Case key
- 105949
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
The pilot’s selection of unsuitable terrain for landing which resulted in a nose over.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that during the landing rollout on a remote sandbar, the airplane’s main tires encountered an area of soft sand and the airplane nosed over, which resulted in substantial damage to the rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N590DC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-6245
- Built
- 1958
- Airframe hours
- 4,000
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320, 160 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Aleksey Sokirkin
- Registered owner
- Grizzly Mechanical and Electric
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Gala, AK
- Airport
- n/a
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 31
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 400 total · 300 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 2983.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PAGA
- METAR
- METAR PAGA 070056Z AUTO 10SM SCT046 BKN055 13/08 A2983 RMK AO2 SLP103 T01280083 $=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 24, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.