19790514026619I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-38-112 · Jackson, MS · May 14, 1979

Date
May 14, 1979 · 17:10 local
Place
Jackson, MS
Phase of flight
Simulated Forced Landing/Tkof
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2470B
Reported as
Piper PA38112
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,923 total49 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.

While demonstrating an emergency landing wing struck power line. Ground contact was made after loss of speed.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE DEMONSTRATING AN EMERGENCY LANDING WING STRUCK POWER LINE. GROUND CONTACT WAS MADE AFTER LOSS OF SPEED.