FAA incident report · Cessna 172D · Sand Springs, MT · April 22, 1983
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.
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Landed on an unimproved grass strip. Nose wheel dropped into a badger hole and broke upper strut retaining bracket.
LANDED ON AN UNIMPROVED GRASS STRIP. NOSE WHEEL DROPPED INTO A BADGER HOLE AND BROKE UPPER STRUT RETAINING BRACKET.