ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 286444
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| Date: | Sunday 1 November 2009 |
| Time: | 07:15 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-18-150 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N82213 |
| MSN: | 18-8009031 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 992 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320 SERIES |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Grangeville, Idaho -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Grangeville, ID (S80) |
| Grangeville, ID (0ID8) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot, who was making a visual-flight-rules approach to an 800-foot-long remote airstrip, overflew the runway to observe the windsock. Because he observed the windsock hanging limp, he assumed that the winds around the runway were calm, and therefore continued his approach. About the time he reached the approach end of the uphill-sloping runway, the airplane encountered a strong tailwind gust, which pushed it "…too far up the strip to land." The pilot therefore executed a go-around, but his decision was "too late" and he was therefore unable to outclimb the terrain on the departure end of the runway. During the go-around sequence, the airplane's landing gear came in contact with brush and it flipped over onto its back. Ground witnesses told the pilot that all morning the winds had been variable in direction and had been changing rapidly from nearly calm to gusting as high as 20 miles per hour.
Probable Cause: The pilot's delayed decision to execute a go-around in gusting winds and with up-sloping terrain.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB WPR10CA049
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 June 1984 | N82213 | Centerline Aviation | 0 | Blue Ridge, TX | |
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| 30 October 2011 | N82213 | Solar Club Inc | 0 | Grangeville, Idaho | |
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Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Oct-2022 10:54 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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