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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA-1A · Fullerton, CA · May 9, 1978

Date
May 9, 1978 · 07:00 local
Place
Fullerton, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6447L
Reported as
Gulstm AA1A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
56 total56 in this make and model0 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 struck fence on final approach, vision was obscurred by sun.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT STRUCK FENCE ON FINAL APPROACH, VISION WAS OBSCURRED BY SUN.