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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28180 · Princeton, ME · February 9, 1978

Date
February 9, 1978 · 08:30 local
Place
Princeton, ME
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5143L
Reported as
Piper PA28180
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
31 total31 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.

Student released for cross-country flight, not aware of a NOTAM. Landed at airport closed because of snow drifts.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT RELEASED FOR CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT, NOT AWARE OF A NOTAM. LANDED AT AIRPORT CLOSED BECAUSE OF SNOW DRIFTS.