- Date
- May 17, 1987, 17:00 local (May 18, 1987, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Yakutat, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- CFCLLPiper PA-18-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40627
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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - water,glassyFactor
Terrain condition - sand barFactor
Visual lookout - not maintainedCause
Nose over
Analysis
While taxiing, after landing on a murky river, the pilot did not see a sand bar. The aircraft struck the sand bar and the aircraft then nosed over inverted. The plt did not file an acc rpt and held a canadian pilot certificate.
Aircraft
- Registration
- CFCLL
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Roanld Newsome
- Registered owner
- Ronald Newsome
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HNS · Haines, AK
- Destination
- YAK · Yakutat, AK
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Front
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F