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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150 · Lake Elmo, MN · March 16, 1978

Date
March 16, 1978 · 14:30 local
Place
Lake Elmo, MN
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N17259
Reported as
Cessna 150
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
28 total28 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 practicing soft field landing got too slow & landed short in snow.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT PRACTICING SOFT FIELD LANDING GOT TOO SLOW & LANDED SHORT IN SNOW.