- Date
- June 26, 1983, 08:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Rome, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4436DPiper PA-18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830626042269A
- Case key
- 39720
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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 struck a rock during landing and damaged the landing gear. The pilot was on a fishing trip and landed initiallyon a gravel bar. He decided to move the acft to a longer plateau because of increasing density altitude. Upon landing inthis open field the rt main landing gear struck a rock and bent the landing gear which caused the wing to drag. As the acft slowed it tipped forward and to the left damaging the left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4436D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-4932
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rodney C. Lippert
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- NONE · Rome, OR
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 900 total · 500 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.