Piper PA-22-160 N8145D

Summary

On 7 November 1999 at about 19:00 local time, a Piper PA-22-160 registered N8145D was involved in an accident near Glennallen, Alaska, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

7 November 1999 at 19:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Glennallen, Alaska, United States

Coordinates

62.0995, -145.5307

Aircraft

Piper PA-22-160

Registration

N8145D

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ANC00LA012

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing. A factor associated with the accident was snow-covered terrain.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

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The certificated private pilot had just departed from a portion of the Glenn Highway when he remembered that he had forgotten the keys to his car that was parked at his destination airport. He elected to return, and while taxiing to the parking area, he applied the brakes, and both main wheels slid on the snow-covered highway. He said that when the left main wheel contacted a patch of dry pavement, the airplane veered to the left, collided with a drainage ditch, and nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wings, left lift-strut, and empennage. The pilot noted that there were no preaccident mechanical anomalies with the airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.