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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA-1C · Red Bluff, CA · June 22, 1979

Date
June 22, 1979 · 15:15 local
Place
Red Bluff, CA
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N39046
Reported as
Gulstm AA1C
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total0 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 topped tanks and lost power during climb. The fuel was contaminated with water

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TOPPED TANKS AND LOST POWER DURING CLIMB. THE FUEL WAS CONTAMINATED WITH WATER