What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Pilot practicing emergency landings, struck a tree top.
As the FAA filed it
PILOT PRACTICING EMERGENCY LANDINGS, STRUCK A TREE TOP.
FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Wiscasset, ME · November 15, 1980
- Date
- November 15, 1980 · 13:00 local
- Place
- Wiscasset, ME
- Phase of flight
- Sfl Final Approach
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N1955F
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- People aboard
- 1
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 2,500 total40 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days
N1955FRegistration cancelled Aug 6, 2012 · Cessna 172NAirframe modelCessna 172NEngine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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.