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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 310D · Wise, VA · March 27, 1979

Date: March 27, 1979 · 16:47 local
Place: Wise, VA
Airport: Lonesome Pine
Phase of flight: Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3171
Reported as: Cessna 310D
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 9,872 total1,710 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N3171Registered now · Cessna 310DS/N 39205 · Built 1960 Airframe modelCessna 310D Engine modelContinental I0-470 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.

Pilot struck an unknown object on VOR final,pilot continued. Contact after re-entering clouds and turbulance.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STRUCK AN UNKNOWN OBJECT ON VOR FINAL,PILOT CONTINUED. CONTACT AFTER RE-ENTERING CLOUDS AND TURBULANCE.