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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Weil BIPLANE · Warsaw, IN · July 9, 1978

Date: July 9, 1978 · 15:45 local
Place: Warsaw, IN
Phase of flight: Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N788
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 5,015 total40 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N788Registration cancelled Dec 23, 1980 · Weil BIPLANES/N WB4 Airframe modelWeil BIPLANE

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 making a low pass over a golf course hit 3 high voltage transmission lines. Landed safely.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MAKING A LOW PASS OVER A GOLF COURSE HIT 3 HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINES. LANDED SAFELY.