Cessna 180A N4814

Summary

On 24 July 2013 at about 04:00 local time, a Cessna 180A registered N4814 was involved in an accident near Anchorage, 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

24 July 2013 at 04:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Nearest airport

Ted Stevens Anchorage Intl (ANC)

Coordinates

61.1742, -149.9981

Aircraft

Cessna 180A

Registration

N4814

Category

Airplane

Year built

1957

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Sterling → Anchorage

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ANC13LA067

Nobody was injured.

The pilot’s loss of directional control of the airplane during a wheel landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot had been cleared to land long on the runway as requested, but, because he became aware of a faster airplane that would be landing behind his airplane, he decided to land closer to the approach end so that he could exit the runway about midfield instead. The pilot reported that the new landing location resulted in an encounter with turbulence and a left crosswind from the lingering jet blast from a Boeing 747 that departed from an adjacent runway. The airplane veered sharply right during the wheel landing and ground-looped. The air traffic controller had included a "caution jet blast" advisory in the pilot's landing clearance, and Federal Aviation Administration guidance states that pilots conducting operations under visual flight rules are expected to adjust the flightpath, as necessary, to avoid wake encounters.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.