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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Luscom 8A · Middletown, DE · September 15, 1980

Date: September 15, 1980 · 13:00 local
Place: Middletown, DE
Airport: Summit
Phase of flight: Final Approach
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N71960
Reported as: Luscom 8A
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 412 total358 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N71960Registered now · Luscombe 8AS/N 3387 Airframe modelLuscombe 8A Engine modelContinental A&C65 seriesReciprocating

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.

Probable fuel exhaustion. Pilot did not have sufficient range for the attempted duration.

As the FAA filed it

PROBABLE FUEL EXHAUSTION. PILOT DID NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT RANGE FOR THE ATTEMPTED DURATION.