19790401013749I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bbavia 7GCBC · Anchorage, AK · April 1, 1979

Date
April 1, 1979 · 20:30 local
Place
Anchorage, AK
Airport
Merrill
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N41700
Reported as
Bbavia 7GCBC
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
135 total70 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.

Aircraft landing at night, not using landing light and slipping to lose altitude, hit snow berm off runway edge.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT LANDING AT NIGHT, NOT USING LANDING LIGHT AND SLIPPING TO LOSE ALTITUDE, HIT SNOW BERM OFF RUNWAY EDGE.