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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech B35 · Piqua, OH · February 28, 1978

Date
February 28, 1978 · 08:00 local
Place
Piqua, OH
Airport
Apple
Phase of flight
To Aborted (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N47WA
Reported as
Beech B35
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
666 total400 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.

Pilot did not see snowdrift which had formed over night. Wheel struck snowbank which pulled plane off runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DID NOT SEE SNOWDRIFT WHICH HAD FORMED OVER NIGHT. WHEEL STRUCK SNOWBANK WHICH PULLED PLANE OFF RUNWAY.