# Incident 20000415022429I: Cessna 170B, Paxson, AK, April 15, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 15, 2000, 03:30 local time
- Place: Paxson, AK
- Airport: Paxson Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 63.0246° N, 145.5006° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PAXSON (PXK), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=63.0246&lon=-145.5006&mi=10
- Aircraft: N2744D, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N2744D) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 170B (registry code 2072306, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-170b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental C145 series (registry code 17012, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-c145-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 170B
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,150 total, 700 in this make and model, 30 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000415022429I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23)ON 4/15/2000 N2744D A CE-170-B HAD LANDED ON A SNOW PACKED RUNWAY AND WAS SITTING AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY PREPARING TO TAXI WHEN THE AIRCRAFT SANK TO THE LEFT. THE PILOT IMMEDIATELY SHUT OFF THE ENGINE AND EXITED THE AIRCRAFT.  THE AIRCRAFT SANK UNTIL THE LEFT WING WAS TOUCHING THE SNOW.  IT WAS A WARM SPRING DAY AND THE PILOT HAD STOPPED THE AIRCRAFT ON TOP OF THE WILLOWS THAT HAD BEEN PACKED DOWN BY A SNOWMACHINE LEAVING A HOLE UNDER THE WILLOWS.  THE DAY AFTER THE PLANE SANK IN THE SNOW THE PILOT NOTICED THAT THE COVERING ON THE RIGHT WING TANK WAS WRINKLED.  THE PILOT WAS COUNSELED ON OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT ON WHEELS LATE ON THE SPRING ON SNOW PACKED RUNWAYS.

## Other reports on N2744D (1)

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

- [Accident 19910503014129A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19910503014129A), May 3, 1991: Cessna 170B (N2744D), Manley Hot Spri, AK, Substantial damage. Right main gear collapsed while landing on rough ground. Was relocating aircraft too high ground due rising water.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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