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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 269C · Clinton, IA · March 20, 1978

Date: March 20, 1978 · 11:00 local
Place: Clinton, IA
Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
Operating rules: Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N7442F
Reported as: Hughes 269C
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,000 total650 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N7442FRegistration cancelled Sep 14, 1989 · Hughes 269CS/N 460498 Airframe modelHughes 269C

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.

Ag pilot lost sight of wire, struck it with the bubble. Bubble was broken.

As the FAA filed it

AG PILOT LOST SIGHT OF WIRE, STRUCK IT WITH THE BUBBLE. BUBBLE WAS BROKEN.

Other reports on N7442F · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

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