# Incident 19790115001659I: Piper PA28181, Evansville, IN, January 15, 1979

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 15, 1979, 08:00 local time
- Place: Evansville, IN
- Airport: Dress Regional
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.9748° N, 87.5558° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Evansville, IN, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.9748&lon=-87.5558&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6260J, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N6260J-2015-04-30) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-181 (registry code 7102807, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-181) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming O&VO-360 series (registry code 41514, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-o-vo-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28181
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 4,700 total, 1,500 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19790115001659I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT TAXIED OVER SNOW RIDGES, STRUCK PROP ON PAVEMENT

## Other reports on N6260J (1)

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

- [Accident 20080417832189A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20080417832189A), Apr 17, 2008: Piper PA28181 (N6260J), Reserve, NM, Destroyed. (-23) On April 17, 2008 at approximately 1340 MDT, N6260J, a Piper PA-28-181 archer, was destroyed when it crashed during takeoff from runway 24 at the…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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