19791115055839I

Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200 · Altoona, PA · November 15, 1979

Date
November 15, 1979 · 20:00 local
Place
Altoona, PA
Airport
Blair Co
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Aircraft
N1024U
Reported as
Piper PA34200
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total100 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.

After losing #1 com receiver, #2 transmitter, #1 nav pilot elected to return to departure point VFR.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER LOSING #1 COM RECEIVER, #2 TRANSMITTER, #1 NAV PILOT ELECTED TO RETURN TO DEPARTURE POINT VFR.