19781214025129I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Pedro Bay, AK · December 14, 1978

Date
December 14, 1978 · 15:30 local
Place
Pedro Bay, AK
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5252R
Reported as
Cessna 172
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
139 total45 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 short and struck a snowberm on the runway threshold.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED SHORT AND STRUCK A SNOWBERM ON THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD.