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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Plattekille, NY · February 9, 1982

Date
February 9, 1982 · 07:50 local
Place
Plattekille, NY
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N138WL
Reported as
Piper PA23250
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total300 in this make and model120 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.

Za lost electrical power IFR en route. Made off airport forced landing. System failure being investigated.

As the FAA filed it

ZA LOST ELECTRICAL POWER IFR EN ROUTE. MADE OFF AIRPORT FORCED LANDING. SYSTEM FAILURE BEING INVESTIGATED.