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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bellanca 17-31ATC · Hancock, MI · March 31, 2014

Date
March 31, 2014 · 13:10 local
Place
Hancock, MI
Airport
Houghton County Memorial Airpo
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N69JW
Reported as
Bellanca 17-31ATC
Reported engine
Lycoming TI0-540 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
260 total23 in this make and model5 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 was landing on runway 13 and during touchdown loss control while encountering a strong gusting cross wind. Aircraft veered into snow bank.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS LANDING ON RUNWAY 13 AND DURING TOUCHDOWN LOSS CONTROL WHILE ENCOUNTERING A STRONG GUSTING CROSS WIND. AIRCRAFT VEERED INTO SNOW BANK.