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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Blanca 7AC · Berkshire, NY · July 15, 1978

Date
July 15, 1978 · 20:00 local
Place
Berkshire, NY
Airport
Private
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N83939
Reported as
Blanca 7AC
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
142 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 intentionally ground looped after landing in order to miss a deer. Missed deer. Broke gear.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT INTENTIONALLY GROUND LOOPED AFTER LANDING IN ORDER TO MISS A DEER. MISSED DEER. BROKE GEAR.