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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech 95B55 · Palmdale, CA · April 4, 1979

Date
April 4, 1979 · 18:30 local
Place
Palmdale, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
In Traffic Pattern-Circling
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N20906
Reported as
Beech 95B55
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,025 total289 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 got too close to a large jet which was making turn to avoid the wake of a preceding jet. Pilot strained back

As the FAA filed it

PILOT GOT TOO CLOSE TO A LARGE JET WHICH WAS MAKING TURN TO AVOID THE WAKE OF A PRECEDING JET. PILOT STRAINED BACK