ANC87FA110 · Cessna 182P
Cessna 182P · Accident: overrun during landing
From Hope Airport (5HO) to Lake Hood Strip
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC87FA110
- 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
Cessna 182P
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- 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
- N1946M
- Operator
- Henry P. Head · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Hope Airport (5HO), HOPE, AKTo Lake Hood Strip
- 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
- Landing · landing roll
- 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
- Overrun
- 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, excessive
- Pilot in command › Go-around, not performed
- Pilot in command › Proper touchdown point, not attained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THERE WAS HVY TRAFFIC WHEN THE PLT OF N1946M CONTACTED ANCHORAGE (ANC) INTL TWR FOR LNDG INSTRNS AT THE LAKE HOOD STRIP.ANC TWR CTLD TRAFFIC AT THE NRBY LAKE HOOD STRIP & LAKE HOOD SEAPLANE BASE, AS WELL AS AT THE ANC INTL ARPT. THE WND AT LAKE HOOD HAD BEEN VARIABLE. JUST BFR THE PLT ASKED FOR LNDG INSTRUCTIONS, THE WND WAS FM 300 DEG AT 8 KTS. THE PLT WAS TOLD TO PLAN FOR A LNDG ON RWY 31. AS ACFT ARRD FOR LNDG, THE CTLR GAVE WND INFO ONLY WHEN THE PLTS REQD IT OR WHEN THE WND SHIFTED. THE PLT OF N1946M DID NOT REQ WND INFO; HOWEVER, AT 1657:55, THE CTLR MADE A TRANSMISSION TO ALL ACFT THAT LAKE HOOD ATIS INFO DELTA WAS CURRENT & THAT THE WND WAS FM 130 DEG AT 9 KTS. APRX 50 SEC LATER, HE CLRD N1946M TO LND ON RWY 31. THE ACFT WAS HI ON FINAL APCH. SUBSEQUENTLY, IT TOUCHED DWN ABOUT HALFWAY DWN THE 2200' GRAVEL STRIP. THE PLT WAS UNABLE TO STOP ON THE REMAINING RWY AREA. THE ACFT CONTD OFF THE END & NOSED OVR ON SOFT, WET TERRAIN. THE PLT RPRTD HE WAS NOT AWARE THERE WAS A TAIL WND UNTIL AFTER THE MISHAP.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC87FA110
- Event ID
- 20001213X31353
- Case number
- ANC87FA110
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- 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 1987-07-27.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e5545723237c04569ef33fe1ba5c098240151de705b0b7980a7a55f78f11ec50; retrieved 2026-09-22T00:47:13.825Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: destination. The narrative states the pilot of N1946M "CONTACTED ANCHORAGE (ANC) INTL TWR FOR LNDG INSTRNS AT THE LAKE HOOD STRIP" and was cleared to land there on runway 31; the destination was not recorded.