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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150 · Meriden, CT · March 19, 1978

Date
March 19, 1978 · 15:30 local
Place
Meriden, CT
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3519V
Reported as
Cessna 150
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
9,000 total3,000 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 and student making cross wind landings with patches of snow on the runway. Lost directional control.

As the FAA filed it

INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT MAKING CROSS WIND LANDINGS WITH PATCHES OF SNOW ON THE RUNWAY. LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL.