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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Blanca 17-30 · Sullivan, IN · November 6, 1978

Date: November 6, 1978 · 18:45 local
Place: Sullivan, IN
Airport: Co
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N6670V
Reported as: Blanca 1730
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 434 total135 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N6670VRegistered now · Bellanca 17-30S/N 30021 Airframe modelBellanca 17-30 Engine modelContinental IO-520 seriesReciprocating

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.

Landed short of runway, struck a ditch. Pilot was fatigued from long work hours.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED SHORT OF RUNWAY, STRUCK A DITCH. PILOT WAS FATIGUED FROM LONG WORK HOURS.