19790421024969I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Morisy 2150AVARGA · Nogales, AZ · April 21, 1979

Date
April 21, 1979 · 12:36 local
Place
Nogales, AZ
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Forced Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8263J
Reported as
Morisy 2150AVARGA
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
18,000 total6 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 landed short of the runway at his destination airport, out of fuel. Failed a main strut in a chuck hole.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED SHORT OF THE RUNWAY AT HIS DESTINATION AIRPORT, OUT OF FUEL. FAILED A MAIN STRUT IN A CHUCK HOLE.