19810101005249I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Balwks FIREFLY 7 · Napa, CA · January 1, 1981

Date
January 1, 1981 · 10:30 local
Place
Napa, CA
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N40392
Reported as
Balwks FIREFLY7
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
40 total25 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.

Upon landing the envelope became tangled in trees.

As the FAA filed it

UPON LANDING THE ENVELOPE BECAME TANGLED IN TREES.