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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA18 · Fairbanks, AK · April 7, 1989

Date
April 7, 1989 · 14:05 local
Place
Fairbanks, AK
Airport
Fairbanks International
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N339T
Reported as
Piper PA18
Reported engine
Lycoming O320*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
265 total40 in this make and model25 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 directional control on takeoff. Veered left off runway. Hit a snowbank. Came to rest inverted on snowbank.

As the FAA filed it

LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON TAKEOFF. VEERED LEFT OFF RUNWAY. HIT A SNOWBANK. CAME TO REST INVERTED ON SNOWBANK.

Other reports on N339T · 5

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.