# Incident 20040704020639I: Blanca 1730A, Ashland, OK, July 4, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 4, 2004, 13:30 local time
- Place: Ashland, OK
- Airport: Flying H Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 34.8295° N, 96.0342° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Flying H Airport (OK74), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.8295&lon=-96.0342&mi=10
- Aircraft: N66HS, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N66HS) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Bellanca 17-30A (registry code 1220433, https://openairdocs.org/model/bellanca-17-30a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BLANCA 1730A
- Reported engine: CONT IO520K
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 200 total, 40 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/20040704020639I

## Narrative

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

(-23) THE PILOT AND OWNER OF THE AIRCRAFT DEPARTED GREEN BAY, WI ENROUTE TO HIS HOME BASE AT WILLISTON, ND. NO FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED AND NO WEATHER BRIEFING WAS RECEIVED. APPROACHING THE FARGO, ND AREA, WEATHER CONDITIONS BEGAN TO DETERIORATE. ALTHOUGH THE PILOT WAS NOT INSTRUMENT RATED, HE ASKED FOR AND RECEIVED AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH CLEARANCE INTO HECTOR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, IN FARGO, ND. SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO VECTOR THE AIRCRAFT FOR THE APPROACH WERE UNSUCCESSFUL AND THE PILOT THEN STATED HE WAS LOW ON FUEL AND WAS GOING TO DEVIATE TO THE KINDRED, ND AIRPORT. ON LANDING AT THE AIRPORT, THE PILOT LOST CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT, SWERVED OFF THE RUNWAY AND AFTER CROSSING A DITCH AND EARTH BERM CAME TO REST IN A CORN FIELD. THE NOSE GEAR OF THE AIRCRAFT COLLAPSED AND THE PROPELLER ENGINE COWL WERE DAMAGED. THE AIRCRAFT WAS FOUND TO HAVE LESS THEN A QUART OF FUEL REMAINING. NO FIRE ENSUED AND THERE WERE NO INJURIES TO THE PILOT WHO WAS THE SOLE OCCUPANT OF THE AIRCRAFT.

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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