19790123003689I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Lear 24A · Sheboygan, WI · January 23, 1979

Date
January 23, 1979 · 21:00 local
Place
Sheboygan, WI
Airport
Co Memorial
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N100KK
Reported as
Lear 24A
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,800 total600 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 reference to runway lights just before touchdown due to snow drifted up around them. Missed runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST REFERENCE TO RUNWAY LIGHTS JUST BEFORE TOUCHDOWN DUE TO SNOW DRIFTED UP AROUND THEM. MISSED RUNWAY.