Piper PA-18-150 N83283

Summary

On 4 September 2011 at about 02:00 local time, a Piper PA-18-150 registered N83283, operated by Stott David L, was involved in an accident near Deadhorse, Alaska, United States. 2 people were 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

4 September 2011 at 02:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Deadhorse, Alaska, United States

Coordinates

69.2500, -147.2167

Aircraft

Piper PA-18-150

Registration

N83283

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Stott David L

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Deadhorse → Deadhorse

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ANC11CA092

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's continued visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot said that, during a visual flight to a remote hunting camp, he encountered an area of fog. He said that he was flying close to a ridge and trying to maintain visual reference when the right wing struck the ridge slope. The airplane turned toward the terrain and impacted the ground, sustaining substantial damage to the wings and fuselage.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.