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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3 · Okaton, SD · December 19, 1978

Date: December 19, 1978 · 09:00 local
Place: Okaton, SD
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N92251
Reported as: Piper J3
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,425 total670 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N92251Registered now · Piper J3C-65S/N 16707 · Built 1946 Airframe modelPiper J3C-65 Engine modelAmateur-built UNKNOWN ENG

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 long in a short, rough, plowed & snow-covered stubble field. Flipped over on his back.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED LONG IN A SHORT, ROUGH, PLOWED & SNOW-COVERED STUBBLE FIELD. FLIPPED OVER ON HIS BACK.

Other reports on N92251 · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

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