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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA28/ · Gainesville, FL · February 6, 1979

Date
February 6, 1979 · 12:08 local
Place
Gainesville, FL
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N9826S
Reported as
Piper PA28/
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 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 failed to contact tower as directed.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT FAILED TO CONTACT TOWER AS DIRECTED.