What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Precautionary landing in field. Probably carburetor ice.
As the FAA filed it
PRECAUTIONARY LANDING IN FIELD. PROBABLY CARBURETOR ICE.
FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · Kingsville, TX · June 10, 1980
- Date
- June 10, 1980 · 16:10 local
- Place
- Kingsville, TX
- Phase of flight
- Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N87968
- Reported as
- Piper J3C65
- People aboard
- 1
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 600 total350 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.