- Date
- June 28, 2018, 07:15 local (15:15 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4714YPiper PA18
- Defining event
- Landing: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 18, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180628024109A
- Case key
- 97633
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Probable cause
The pilot’s overapplication of the brakes during 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 of the tundra-tire, tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, while landing off airport on a gravel bar, he "got on the brakes a little too hard and the tail came up and the airplane flipped over." The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing lift strut. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot of the tundra tire, tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, while landing off airport on a gravel bar, he "got on the brakes a little too hard and the tail came up and the airplane flipped over". The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing lift strut. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4714Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA18 (150)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-8956
- Built
- 1971
- Airframe hours
- 2,162.68
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320 SERIES, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 23, 2018
- Departed
- AK12 · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- Anchorage, AK
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Satellite tracking device
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
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 10, 2016
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 324 total · 221 in this make and model · 263 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.82 inHg
- Observed at
- PAUO, 21 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 4, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 991 KB 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.
Other investigations on N4714Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.