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Event ANC86LA082

1986-06-17 KING SALMON, Alaska, United States Airport · AKN Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2937P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-150

Year of manufacture

1955 · 31 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560710

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A303FA

Registrant of record

SMITH CALEB

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PLT STATED THAT AFTER LIFT OFF THE ACFT STALLED. HE THEN LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND THE ACFT CONTACTED A DITCH. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1986_ANC86LA082.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). 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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