19791209047579I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA18 · Turner, MT · December 9, 1979

Date
December 9, 1979 · 16:30 local
Place
Turner, MT
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4007E
Reported as
Piper PA18
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
15,000 total7,000 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.

Aircraft took off in snow. Brakes froze, locked. Landed in snow, left gear broke off. Damaged wing tip.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT TOOK OFF IN SNOW. BRAKES FROZE, LOCKED. LANDED IN SNOW, LEFT GEAR BROKE OFF. DAMAGED WING TIP.