19791120044509I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28181 · Syracuse, IN · November 20, 1979

Date
November 20, 1979 · 16:30 local
Place
Syracuse, IN
Airport
Wawasee
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N30667
Reported as
Piper PA28181
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
417 total120 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 on damp sod runway, ran off end, across road, into cornfield. Pilots medical expired.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED LONG ON DAMP SOD RUNWAY, RAN OFF END, ACROSS ROAD, INTO CORNFIELD. PILOTS MEDICAL EXPIRED.