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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-22-108 · Odessa, TX · June 9, 1981

Date
June 9, 1981 · 21:38 local
Place
Odessa, TX
Airport
Johnson Ranch Str
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4978Z
Reported as
Piper PA22108
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
400 total200 in this make and model80 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 struck phone wire on approach to ranch strip. Dented spinner and broke wire.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT STRUCK PHONE WIRE ON APPROACH TO RANCH STRIP. DENTED SPINNER AND BROKE WIRE.