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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18A 150 · Hamilton, MT · April 14, 2018

Date
April 14, 2018 · 12:00 local
Place
Hamilton, MT
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
VPEA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9274D
Reported as
Piper PA-18A 150
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
12,500 total4,000 in this make and model135 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.

Aircraft landed on forest service airport in the back country of Montana (C64). There was 3 feet of very wet snow on the runway, when the aircaft slowed down the skies sank into the snow, and the aircraft flipped very slowly onto its back. The propeler was bent and the rotating beacon was damaged on the tail.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT LANDED ON FOREST SERVICE AIRPORT IN THE BACK COUNTRY OF MONTANA (C64). THERE WAS 3 FEET OF VERY WET SNOW ON THE RUNWAY, WHEN THE AIRCAFT SLOWED DOWN THE SKIES SANK INTO THE SNOW, AND THE AIRCRAFT FLIPPED VERY SLOWLY ONTO ITS BACK. THE PROPELER WAS BENT AND THE ROTATING BEACON WAS DAMAGED ON THE TAIL.