19781215025249I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Storm Lake, IA · December 15, 1978

Date
December 15, 1978 · 13:10 local
Place
Storm Lake, IA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4152J
Reported as
Piper PA28140
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
934 total661 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 snowbank on approach end of runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED SHORT AND STRUCK A SNOWBANK ON APPROACH END OF RUNWAY.