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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA18 · Bongkong Sarawa, MY · August 9, 1979

Date
August 9, 1979 · 12:15 local
Place
Bongkong Sarawa, MY
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N83609
Reported as
Piper PA18
Reported engine
Lycoming O320A2A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,057 total61 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.

Touchdown on one way strip with gusty tailwind was long. Jungle strip was short. Ran off side into tall grass.

As the FAA filed it

TOUCHDOWN ON ONE WAY STRIP WITH GUSTY TAILWIND WAS LONG. JUNGLE STRIP WAS SHORT. RAN OFF SIDE INTO TALL GRASS.