19790121002849I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Luscom 8A · Augusta, KS · January 21, 1979

Date
January 21, 1979 · 15:20 local
Place
Augusta, KS
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1168K
Reported as
Luscom 8A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,800 total40 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 lost directional control on takeoff from an icy runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON TAKEOFF FROM AN ICY RUNWAY.