What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Bird strikes to nose cone on descent.
As the FAA filed it
BIRD STRIKES TO NOSE CONE ON DESCENT.
FAA incident report · Piper PA31 · Victoria, TX · March 5, 1979
- Date
- March 5, 1979 · 20:15 local
- Place
- Victoria, TX
- Airport
- Regional
- Phase of flight
- Descent
- Operating rules
- Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator
- TJA
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N27811
- Reported as
- Piper PA31
- People aboard
- 3
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 5,500 total500 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.