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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Blanca 7ECA · Elwood, IN · March 11, 1978

Date
March 11, 1978 · 17:30 local
Place
Elwood, IN
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8677V
Reported as
Blanca 7ECA
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
201 total35 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 landed on snow-covered runway, bounced, then nosed over.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED ON SNOW-COVERED RUNWAY, BOUNCED, THEN NOSED OVER.