19791014052829I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-180 · Alsek River, AK · October 14, 1979

Date
October 14, 1979 · 11:00 local
Place
Alsek River, AK
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N32539
Reported as
Piper PA28180
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total2,000 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 landed long over water filled depression, unable to stop on wet grass.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED LONG OVER WATER FILLED DEPRESSION, UNABLE TO STOP ON WET GRASS.