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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · Nenana, AK · February 28, 1981

Date: February 28, 1981 · 16:00 local
Place: Nenana, AK
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N87776
Reported as: Piper J3C65
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 800 total500 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N87776Registered now · Piper J3C-65S/N 15434 · Built 1946 Airframe modelPiper J3C-65 Engine modelContinental C85 seriesReciprocating

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 on frozen river. During rollout the wheels sank in snow and the aircraft flipped over on its back.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED ON FROZEN RIVER. DURING ROLLOUT THE WHEELS SANK IN SNOW AND THE AIRCRAFT FLIPPED OVER ON ITS BACK.