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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech C23 · Birmingham, AL · September 23, 1979

Date
September 23, 1979 · 15:15 local
Place
Birmingham, AL
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2009P
Reported as
Beech C23
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
178 total109 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 ballooned, porpoised, then lost directional control. Bent prop, cowl and nose gear.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT BALLOONED, PORPOISED, THEN LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. BENT PROP, COWL AND NOSE GEAR.

Other reports on N2009P · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.