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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC83FA075

1983-04-25 SOLDOTNA, Alaska, United States Airport · SXQ Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4396Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-150

Year of manufacture

1968 · 15 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680822

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A547CF

Registrant of record

LANDING JERRY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

WITNESSES OBSERVED THE ACFT MANEUVERING ERRATICALLY NEAR THE ARPT & ANTICIPATED THE ACCIDENT. THE 1ST APPROACH TO RWY 25WAS DESCRIBED AS ERRATIC WITH MINIMAL APPARENT CONTROL WHICH INCLUDED AN ABRUPT PULL-UP, STALL, BOUNCE, & GO-AROUND IN ALEFT PATTERN AT 300 FT AGL. THE 2ND BASE LEG WAS A VERY SHALLOW(FLAT/SKIDDING) TURN & THE ACFT DISAPPEARED BEHIND TREES.THE PLT HAD A HISTORY OF DISEQUILIBRIUM & HAD INTERMITTENTLY BEEN TAKING DYAZIDE FOR HYPERTENSION OF UNKNOWN DOSES. ALL OF THE PLT'S PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS DECLINED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. THE PLT HAD NOT OBTAINED A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE SINCE12/28/77. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_ANC83FA075.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (stall, go-around). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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