ANC88LA116 · Artic Aircraft Corp. S-1B2
Artic Aircraft Corp. S-1B2 · Accident during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to Anchorage, AK
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC88LA116
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Artic Aircraft Corp. S-1B2
- Aircraft type
- Artic S-1
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N55AD
- Operator
- Mangiardi, Eugene J. · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Anchorage, AK
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Miscellaneous/other
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Airspeed(vxse), not maintained
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT HAD JUST TAKEN OFF FROM A SAND BAR. DURING CLIMB-OUT ON THE DOWNWIND LEG, HE FELT THE ENGINE WAS NOT PRODUCING THE PROPER POWER BECAUSE THE AIRSPEED WAS DROPPING AND THE CLIMB HAD STOPPED. HE MADE A LEFT TURN AND CRASH LANDED ON THE SAND BAR TO AVOID A FULL STALL. NO MECHANICAL PROBLEM WAS FOUND WITH THE AIRPLANE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC88LA116
- Event ID
- 20001213X26418
- Case number
- ANC88LA116
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1988-08-24.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 70964d79ac99ade0748bd548a919fe580dc9d3fe7a6a8fd1942412c57bddf4e6; retrieved 2026-09-23T09:04:47.085Z.