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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Hughes 269C · Davenport, IA · March 17, 1981

Date
March 17, 1981 · 07:30 local
Place
Davenport, IA
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7431F
Reported as
Hughes 269C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
350 total93 in this make and model47 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.

Pilots canopy bowed inward at 85 knots. Canopy popped back out and cracked when speed reduced. Not enough thickness

As the FAA filed it

PILOTS CANOPY BOWED INWARD AT 85 KNOTS. CANOPY POPPED BACK OUT AND CRACKED WHEN SPEED REDUCED.NOT ENOUGH THICKNESS

Other reports on N7431F · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.