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Incident

FAA incident report · Amtr KING COBRA · Kalispell, MT · April 10, 1985

Date
April 10, 1985 · 09:00 local
Place
Kalispell, MT
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N4485B
Reported as
Amtr Kingcobra
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
60 total25 in this make and model20 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.

Student pilot carrying passenger landed on frozen lake. During taxi to find better ice nose wheel broke thru ice.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT PILOT CARRYING PASSENGER LANDED ON FROZEN LAKE. DURING TAXI TO FIND BETTER ICE NOSE WHEEL BROKE THRU ICE.