19780117003379I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA31T · Louisville, KY · January 17, 1978

Date
January 17, 1978 · 09:34 local
Place
Louisville, KY
Airport
Bowman
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N231PT
Reported as
Piper PA31T
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,000 total1,000 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Aircraft struck a ridge of snow causing craft to veer into snowbank on takeoff roll.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT STRUCK A RIDGE OF SNOW CAUSING CRAFT TO VEER INTO SNOWBANK ON TAKEOFF ROLL.