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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrbb MUSTANG2 · Bayou La Batre, AL · June 30, 1981

Date
June 30, 1981 · 10:00 local
Place
Bayou La Batre, AL
Airport
Bayou La Batre
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N55TW
Reported as
Amtrbb MUSTANG2
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,800 total100 in this make and model30 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.

Abrupt wind change caused aircraft to settle rapidly and land hard.

As the FAA filed it

ABRUPT WIND CHANGE CAUSED AIRCRAFT TO SETTLE RAPIDLY AND LAND HARD.