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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-300 · Marshall, AK · April 6, 1989

Date
April 6, 1989 · 18:00 local
Place
Marshall, AK
Airport
Marshall Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
LAQA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N440SA
Reported as
Piper PA32300
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540K1G5
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,600 total130 in this make and model130 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.

Wind shear on final. Lost control and landed hard. Executed missed approach and landed on a frozen lake.

As the FAA filed it

WIND SHEAR ON FINAL. LOST CONTROL AND LANDED HARD. EXECUTED MISSED APPROACH AND LANDED ON A FROZEN LAKE.