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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-36-285 · Stockton, CA · March 26, 1981

Date
March 26, 1981 · 15:00 local
Place
Stockton, CA
Airport
Private
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9995P
Reported as
Piper PA36285
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total450 in this make and model100 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.

On short final, aircraft contacted a large blackberry bush causing aircraft to veer into ditch along side runway.

As the FAA filed it

ON SHORT FINAL, AIRCRAFT CONTACTED A LARGE BLACKBERRY BUSH CAUSING AIRCRAFT TO VEER INTO DITCH ALONG SIDE RUNWAY.