- Date
- August 21, 1983, 12:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Arlington, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N5097TPiper PA28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830821055519A
- Case key
- 39757
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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 while taxiing unoccupied after being hand propped for a start by the pilot. The pilot stated that hewas unable to start the acft normally so he hand propped it with no one in the cockpit. The unoccupied acft taxied from the ramp across the taxiway and rwy. The acfts nosed gear sheared in the soft ground off the rwy and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5097T
- Reported as
- Piper PA28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-722-5345
- Airframe hours
- 2,203
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rite Brothers Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- U1L · Quillayute, WA
- Destination
- S88 · Arlington, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- S88 · Arlington Municipal
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 67 total · 9 in this make and model · 44 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 66 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFI, 35 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.