19810121006009I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-38-112 · Conway, AR · January 21, 1981

Date
January 21, 1981 · 15:00 local
Place
Conway, AR
Airport
Conway
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2490K
Reported as
Piper PA38112
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
397 total11 in this make and model132 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.

Instructor demonstrating soft field landing let glide path get too low and struck powerline. Propellor badly nicked

As the FAA filed it

INSTRUCTOR DEMONSTRATING SOFT FIELD LANDING LET GLIDE PATH GET TOO LOW AND STRUCK POWERLINE.PROPELLOR BADLY NICKED