19791002051519I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr DV01 · Spencerville, OH · October 2, 1979

Date
October 2, 1979 · 00:50 local
Place
Spencerville, OH
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4DV
Reported as
Amtr DV01
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.

Transcontinental balloon attempt ran into thunderstorms, landed.

As the FAA filed it

TRANSCONTINENTAL BALLOON ATTEMPT RAN INTO THUNDERSTORMS, LANDED.