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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · Deep Creek, MD · April 11, 1981

Date
April 11, 1981 · 17:30 local
Place
Deep Creek, MD
Airport
Deep Creek
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N77534
Reported as
Piper J3C65
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,300 total30 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.

Aircraft made forced landing due to probable carburetor icing.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT MADE FORCED LANDING DUE TO PROBABLE CARBURETOR ICING.