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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Navion NAVION · Roberts, MT · December 23, 1982

Date: December 23, 1982 · 16:05 local
Place: Roberts, MT
Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N4240K
Reported as: Navion NAVION*
Reported engine: Continental E2254
People aboard: 3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,400 total50 in this make and model14 in the last 90 days

N4240KRegistration cancelled Jun 2, 1998 · Ryan NAVIONS/N NAV41240 Airframe modelRyan NAVION

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.

Gyro instruments iced up. Gyro suction lost. Under radar control. Landed on road. Main wheel went into snowbank.

As the FAA filed it

GYRO INSTRUMENTS ICED UP. GYRO SUCTION LOST. UNDER RADAR CONTROL. LANDED ON ROAD. MAIN WHEEL WENT INTO SNOWBANK.