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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrso STARLETSA500 · Alvin, TX · September 23, 1978

Date
September 23, 1978 · 11:00 local
Place
Alvin, TX
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N12BW
Reported as
Amtrso STARLETSA500
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,000 total35 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 settled to ground on landing. Both landing gear struts broke.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT SETTLED TO GROUND ON LANDING. BOTH LANDING GEAR STRUTS BROKE.