# Incident 19790214005499I: Piper PA31, Sunfield, MI, February 14, 1979

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 14, 1979, 12:30 local time
- Place: Sunfield, MI
- Airport: Stoney Acres
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.7612° N, 84.9951° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Sunfield, MI, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.7612&lon=-84.9951&mi=10
- Aircraft: N72456 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA31
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 3,500 total, 600 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/19790214005499I

## Narrative

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

BRAKES DID NOT FUNCTION ON ROLLOUT. STRUCK SNOWBANK. PROBABLY FROZEN BRAKES.

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.