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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA18A · Miami, FL · May 9, 1981

Date
May 9, 1981 · 11:50 local
Place
Miami, FL
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5758D
Reported as
Piper PA18A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 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.

Pilot inadvertently turned mag switch off during low level flight.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT INADVERTENTLY TURNED MAG SWITCH OFF DURING LOW LEVEL FLIGHT.