18.4547° N, 66.7353° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Arecibo, PR, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
June 3, 1980 · 10:40 local
Place
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9601U
Reported as
Gulstm AA5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
60 total1 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.
Student pilot landed hard, bounced, crashed on nosewheel and propeller.
As the FAA filed it
STUDENT PILOT LANDED HARD, BOUNCED, CRASHED ON NOSEWHEEL AND PROPELLER.