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Incident

FAA incident report · Swrngn SA26AT · Rome, NY · July 30, 1979

Date
July 30, 1979 · 15:47 local
Place
Rome, NY
Airport
Griffiss
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Aircraft
N777PE
Reported as
Swrngn SA26AT
People aboard
6
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,000 total700 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.

Forced landing due to fuel exhaustion. Fuel gauges were inaccurate.

As the FAA filed it

FORCED LANDING DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION. FUEL GAUGES WERE INACCURATE.