19790412014139I

Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23 · Columbia, SC · April 12, 1979

Date
April 12, 1979 · 01:35 local
Place
Columbia, SC
Airport
Metro
Phase of flight
Initial Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N3151P
Reported as
Piper PA23
People aboard
1
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.

Emergency declared by controller for pilot with vertigo. He was vectored to VFR weather, landed at an afb

As the FAA filed it

EMERGENCY DECLARED BY CONTROLLER FOR PILOT WITH VERTIGO. HE WAS VECTORED TO VFR WEATHER, LANDED AT AN AFB