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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Lear 25F · Ft Sumner, NM · June 10, 1982

Date: June 10, 1982 · 18:15 local
Place: Ft Sumner, NM
Phase of flight: Descent
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N999TH
Reported as: Lear 25F
Reported engine: GE CJ6108
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 7,000 total500 in this make and model75 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.

Lightning strikes descending through FL 380 and 360. Knocked out radar altimeter.

As the FAA filed it

LIGHTNING STRIKES DESCENDING THROUGH FL 380 AND 360. KNOCKED OUT RADAR ALTIMETER.