Piper PA-22-160 N8955D

Summary

On 3 October 1997 at about 23:00 local time, a Piper PA-22-160 registered N8955D was involved in an accident near Sterling, Alaska, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

3 October 1997 at 23:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Sterling, Alaska, United States

Coordinates

60.5394, -150.7903

Aircraft

Piper PA-22-160

Registration

N8955D

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Unknown

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ANC98LA001

1 person died.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot maintained a residence on a small island in a remote lake where he kept a float equipped airplane. Neighbors observed the pilot repairing a hole in one of the airplane's floats. The neighbors heard an airplane engine start up about 1500. The airplane was not observed. About 1720, an airplane over-flying the lake, observed the accident airplane partially submerged. It was floating upside down, about 1/2 mile from the pilot's residence. Search personnel were dispatched to the airplane and upon arrival, joined several of the pilot's neighbors at the partially submerged airplane. Rescue divers were unable to determine if the airplane was occupied before it sank in 139 feet of water. The pilot is missing and presumed to be fatally injured.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.