What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Total electrical failure due to a faulty alternator.
As the FAA filed it
TOTAL ELECTRICAL FAILURE DUE TO A FAULTY ALTERNATOR.
FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Detroit, MI · November 19, 1980
- Date
- November 19, 1980 · 20:37 local
- Place
- Detroit, MI
- Airport
- Metro
- Phase of flight
- Final Approach
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Aircraft
- N91507
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- People aboard
- 1
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 1,800 total15 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.