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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Smith Kenneth S RANS S-7 · Eagle River, WI · February 1, 2012

Date
February 1, 2012 · 12:42 local
Place
Eagle River, WI
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2042M
Reported as
Smith Kenneth S Rans S-7
Reported engine
Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total500 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.

Pilot performed a non-emergency landing on a snow mobile trail on sugar camp lake. While taxiing the main landing gear broke through the snow crust causing the aircraft to tip forward. This resulted in the propeller striking the ice and breaking

As the FAA filed it

PILOT PERFORMED A NON-EMERGENCY LANDING ON A SNOW MOBILE TRAIL ON SUGAR CAMP LAKE. WHILE TAXIING THE MAIN LANDING GEAR BROKE THROUGH THE SNOW CRUST CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO TIP FORWARD. THIS RESULTED IN THE PROPELLER STRIKING THE ICE AND BREAKING