43.5490° N, 89.4659° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Portage, WI, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
March 29, 1986 · 16:15 local
Place
Portage, WI
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Go Round (Aborted VFR)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N29489
Reported as
Cessna 177
Reported engine
Lycoming O320E2D
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
71 total6 in this make and model6 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.
After a low pass over airport runway aircraft stalled and impacted ice on a lake. Fuel quantity at crash unknown.
As the FAA filed it
AFTER A LOW PASS OVER AIRPORT RUNWAY AIRCRAFT STALLED AND IMPACTED ICE ON A LAKE. FUEL QUANTITY AT CRASH UNKNOWN.