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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 404CESSNA · Albany, NY · March 21, 1980

Date
March 21, 1980 · 16:30 local
Place
Albany, NY
Airport
Co
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
GZYG
Reported as
Cessna 404CESSNA
Reported engine
Continental GTSIO520M
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.

Static electricity discharges damaged windshield & popped alternator cb. Unexplained power loss.

As the FAA filed it

STATIC ELECTRICITY DISCHARGES DAMAGED WINDSHIELD & POPPED ALTERNATOR CB. UNEXPLAINED POWER LOSS.