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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-20 · Chatanika, AK · September 3, 2018

Date
September 3, 2018 · 15:00 local
Place
Chatanika, AK
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6962K
Reported as
Piper PA-20
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-290 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
3,180 total94 in this make and model15 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.

After landing at a private strip approximately 32 nautical miles north of fairbanks, the pilot lost control of the aircraft and damaged an area of the left wing leading edge that was roughly three feet long.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER LANDING AT A PRIVATE STRIP APPROXIMATELY 32 NAUTICAL MILES NORTH OF FAIRBANKS, THE PILOT LOST CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT AND DAMAGED AN AREA OF THE LEFT WING LEADING EDGE THAT WAS ROUGHLY THREE FEET LONG.