FAA incident report · Cessna R172K · Spokane, WA · December 28, 1981
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.
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Alternator output dropped to zero. Got radar vecters to airport. Found broken alternator wire at terminal.
ALTERNATOR OUTPUT DROPPED TO ZERO.GOT RADAR VECTERS TO AIRPORT. FOUND BROKEN ALTERNATOR WIRE AT TERMINAL.