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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28180 · Bowling Green, KY · July 5, 1978

Date
July 5, 1978 · 19:30 local
Place
Bowling Green, KY
Airport
Warren Co
Phase of flight
Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9657K
Reported as
Piper PA28180
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
200 total100 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.

Pilot struck a powerline during unauthorized low level flight. Landed safely.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STRUCK A POWERLINE DURING UNAUTHORIZED LOW LEVEL FLIGHT. LANDED SAFELY.