- Date
- March 13, 1983, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Coalville, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3743MPiper PA-12
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830313009189A
- Case key
- 16052
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft nosed over during an precautionary landing due to deteriorating weather. The plt had received a weather briefing. The wx conditions deteriorated enroute due to a snow storm and the plt elected to land on a private strip to await improved weather. The airstrip seemed hard packed enough when the plt surveyed it from the air and it did hold up the acft until it decelerated. The right wheel sank into the snow at slow speed and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3743M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12-2678
- Airframe hours
- 1,445
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wayne A. Johnson
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 8, 1982 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- SBS · Steamboat Sprgs, CO
- Airport
- NONE · Private Airstrip
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 8,293 total · 60 in this make and model · 5,454 as pilot in command · 92 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 34 °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 N3743M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.