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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Grand Rapids, MN · February 15, 1987

Date
February 15, 1987 · 12:00 local
Place
Grand Rapids, MN
Airport
Little Long Lake
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7475A
Reported as
Cessna 172
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
450 total450 in this make and model18 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.

Lost control while striking a snowbank during takeoff from a narrow plowed frozen lake runway.

As the FAA filed it

LOST CONTROL WHILE STRIKING A SNOWBANK DURING TAKEOFF FROM A NARROW PLOWED FROZEN LAKE RUNWAY.