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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Beech 58P · Andros Island, Bahamas · April 20, 1982

Date
April 20, 1982 · 13:30 local
Place
Andros Island, Bahamas
Airport
Congotown
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N9131S
Reported as
Beech 58P
Reported engine
Continental TSIO520L
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
18,500 total8,000 in this make and model18 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.

Crash landed while making a test run over terrain adjacent to a downed aircraft to determine if safe landing area.

As the FAA filed it

CRASH LANDED WHILE MAKING A TEST RUN OVER TERRAIN ADJACENT TO A DOWNED AIRCRAFT TO DETERMINE IF SAFE LANDING AREA.