- Date
- May 24, 1983, 14:04 local (21:04 UTC)
- Place
- Touchet, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8576CPiper PA18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830524021879A
- Case key
- 39699
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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 acft nosed over during landing and came to rest inverted in an off airport landing. The pilot was surveying some land to be sprayed to estimate the cost. He landed on the field which was very soft and the acft nosed over. The pilot was not injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8576C
- Reported as
- Piper PA18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-2730
- Airframe hours
- 3,760
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Edwin A. Reser
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 24, 1983
- Departed
- NONE · Walla Walla, WA
- Destination
- NONE · Touchet, WA
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 500 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ALW, 30 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.