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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20J · Fond Du Lac, WI · December 17, 1983

Date
December 17, 1983 · 09:00 local
Place
Fond Du Lac, WI
Airport
County
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4672H
Reported as
Mooney M20J
Reported engine
Lycoming IO360A1B
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
350 total200 in this make and model12 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.

Veered off the runway into a snow bank at start of takeoff roll. Left brake had frozen taxiing in unplowed snow.

As the FAA filed it

VEERED OFF THE RUNWAY INTO A SNOW BANK AT START OF TAKEOFF ROLL. LEFT BRAKE HAD FROZEN TAXIING IN UNPLOWED SNOW.