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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172E · Omak, WA · December 18, 1992

Date: December 18, 1992 · 11:45 local
Place: Omak, WA
Airport: Omak Airport
Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N5390T
Reported as: Cessna 172E
Reported engine: Lycoming O360A1A
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 420 total175 in this make and model12 in the last 90 days

N5390TRegistered now · Cessna 172ES/N 17251290 · Built 1964 Airframe modelCessna 172E Engine modelContinental 0-300 seriesReciprocating

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.

While turning for takeoff aircraft ran into small snowdrift. Tailwind caused aircraft to nose up.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE TURNING FOR TAKEOFF AIRCRAFT RAN INTO SMALL SNOWDRIFT. TAILWIND CAUSED AIRCRAFT TO NOSE UP.