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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA31325 · Ambler, PA · August 3, 1979

Date
August 3, 1979 · 21:00 local
Place
Ambler, PA
Airport
Wings
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N59719
Reported as
Piper PA31325
People aboard
2
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.

Overshot while attempting night landing on airport whose runway lights were out due to lightning strike.

As the FAA filed it

OVERSHOT WHILE ATTEMPTING NIGHT LANDING ON AIRPORT WHOSE RUNWAY LIGHTS WERE OUT DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKE.