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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Blanca 17-30 · La Crosse, WI · February 25, 1979

Date
February 25, 1979 · 16:21 local
Place
La Crosse, WI
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4893V
Reported as
Blanca 1730
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
600 total230 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 allowed aircraft to get too low on approach. Struck snowbank.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ALLOWED AIRCRAFT TO GET TOO LOW ON APPROACH. STRUCK SNOWBANK.

Other reports on N4893V · 3

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.