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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · AMD Falcon · Mobile, AL · February 18, 1979

Date
February 18, 1979 · 15:00 local
Place
Mobile, AL
Airport
Bates
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N205SC
Reported as
AMD Falcon
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,800 total300 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.

Lost power on left engine just after liftoff. Sea gull ingestion.

As the FAA filed it

LOST POWER ON LEFT ENGINE JUST AFTER LIFTOFF. SEA GULL INGESTION.