47.9196° N, 97.0873° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Grand Forks, ND, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
February 21, 1980 · 13:00 local
Place
Grand Forks, ND
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
CFRFR
Reported as
Cessna 172
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2 in this make and model13 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.
Flew into area of freezing rain. Elected to land on a road. Veered off road into a snowbank.
As the FAA filed it
FLEW INTO AREA OF FREEZING RAIN. ELECTED TO LAND ON A ROAD. VEERED OFF ROAD INTO A SNOWBANK.