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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Ashland, WI · February 16, 1978

Date
February 16, 1978 · 15:30 local
Place
Ashland, WI
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N491ET
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total100 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.

Instructor allowed student to hit a snowbank at the approach end of the runway.

As the FAA filed it

INSTRUCTOR ALLOWED STUDENT TO HIT A SNOWBANK AT THE APPROACH END OF THE RUNWAY.