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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 207A · Emmanak, AK · July 25, 1984

Date
July 25, 1984 · 20:00 local
Place
Emmanak, AK
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
HERA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N73480
Reported as
Cessna 207A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,500 total1,800 in this make and model240 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.

Swerved to avoid a stump while taking off from a gravel sand bar, entered soft ground and nosed up.

As the FAA filed it

SWERVED TO AVOID A STUMP WHILE TAKING OFF FROM A GRAVEL SAND BAR, ENTERED SOFT GROUND AND NOSED UP.