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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 206H · Willow, AK · April 3, 2002

Date
April 3, 2002 · 14:15 local
Place
Willow, AK
Airport
Rustic Wilderness Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7254H
Reported as
Cessna 206H
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540AC1A5
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
702 total60 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.

(-23) The engine lost oil pressure in cruise flight. Pilot elected a precautinary landing on a snow-covered remote airport. The aircraft sank through the snow and experienced a prop strike, bending the prop blades.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE ENGINE LOST OIL PRESSURE IN CRUISE FLIGHT. PILOT ELECTED A PRECAUTINARY LANDING ON A SNOW-COVERED REMOTE AIRPORT. THE AIRCRAFT SANK THROUGH THE SNOW AND EXPERIENCED A PROP STRIKE, BENDING THE PROP BLADES.