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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 23BEECH · Elwood, IN · May 21, 1978

Date
May 21, 1978 · 11:15 local
Place
Elwood, IN
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2396Q
Reported as
Beech 23BEECH
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,700 total14 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 flew through fence after three attempted takeoffs from soft sod strip.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FLEW THROUGH FENCE AFTER THREE ATTEMPTED TAKEOFFS FROM SOFT SOD STRIP.