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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-25-235 · Valparaiso, IN · June 15, 1981

Date
June 15, 1981 · 07:30 local
Place
Valparaiso, IN
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8830L
Reported as
Piper PA25235
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
744 total42 in this make and model12 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 closed throttle with shirt sleeve cuff opening during swath run resulting in force landing.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT INADVERTENTLY CLOSED THROTTLE WITH SHIRT SLEEVE CUFF OPENING DURING SWATH RUN RESULTING IN FORCE LANDING.

Other reports on N8830L · 2

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