- Date
- July 5, 1987, 15:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Sun Valley, ID
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3438MPiper PA-12
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870705032139A
- Case key
- 40653
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Weather condition - unfavorable windCause
Directional control - not possible
On ground/water collision with object
Object - fenceFactor
Analysis
After landing touchdown, plt encountered swirling winds. Acft drifted left and into airport boundary (cyclone-type) fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3438M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 122276
- Airframe hours
- 2,707
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stanley E. Clark
- Registered owner
- Clark, Stanley E.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 2, 1986 · 54 hours before
- Departed
- WYS · W.Yellowstone, MT
- Airport
- SUN · Friedman Memorial, runway 31, 6,600 × 100 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,350 total · 745 in this make and model · 1,227 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SUN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.