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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28/ · Minneapolis, KS · July 19, 1978

Date
July 19, 1978 · 19:45 local
Place
Minneapolis, KS
Airport
Soloman Valley
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9536W
Reported as
Piper PA28/
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
82 total27 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 overshot on short grass strip during landing attempt in rain, gusty winds and darkness.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT OVERSHOT ON SHORT GRASS STRIP DURING LANDING ATTEMPT IN RAIN, GUSTY WINDS AND DARKNESS.