19781221021429I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-16 · Anchorage, AK · December 21, 1978

Date
December 21, 1978 · 17:00 local
Place
Anchorage, AK
Airport
Lake Hood
Phase of flight
Ops On Grnd From Ldg/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5761H
Reported as
Piper PA16
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
311 total237 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.

While taxiing to parking area after landing on skis on frozen lake, plane struck a parked plane.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE TAXIING TO PARKING AREA AFTER LANDING ON SKIS ON FROZEN LAKE, PLANE STRUCK A PARKED PLANE.