19790121002819I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J5A · Glenallen, AK · January 21, 1979

Date: January 21, 1979 · 13:00 local
Place: Glenallen, AK
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N38030
Reported as: Piper J5A
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 582 total582 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N38030Registered now · Piper J5AS/N 5-838 · Built 1941 Airframe modelPiper J5A Engine modelContinental A&C75 seriesReciprocating

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 on snow covered glacier and struck a snow berm.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED ON SNOW COVERED GLACIER AND STRUCK A SNOW BERM.