- Date
- August 4, 1982, 20:00 local (Aug 5, 1982, 04:00 UTC)
- Place
- Snohomish, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5001ZPiper PA-22-108
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report August 4, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 72633
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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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
The pilot stated that he kept his speed up and landed farther down the runway than usual due to other traffic. After touchdown he found that the brakes had failed so he attempted to slow down the aircraft by swerving back and forth and finally turning off on a taxiway at which timethe aircraft nosed over. The pilot stated that examination revealed that the master cylinder failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5001Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-108
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 228610
- Airframe hours
- 3,016
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1B, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Steven W. Hell
- Registered owner
- Steven W. Hell
- Departed
- Cordalls, OR
- Destination
- Snohomish, WA
- Airport
- S43 · Harvyfield, runway 32, 2,600 × 0 ft, asphalt
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 240 total · 240 in this make and model · 220 as pilot in command · 180 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 360° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Temperature
- 99 °F
- Observed at
- VMC