What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Lost directional control and struck drifted snow.
As the FAA filed it
LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND STRUCK DRIFTED SNOW.
FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-151 · Elgin, IL · February 17, 1979
- Date
- February 17, 1979 · 15:00 local
- Place
- Elgin, IL
- Airport
- Municipal
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff Ground Roll
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N1161H
- Reported as
- Piper PA28151
- People aboard
- 1
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 93 total2 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days
N1161HRegistered now · Piper PA-28-151Airframe modelPiper PA-28-151Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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.