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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bbavia 7KCAB · San Jose, CA · July 8, 1982

Date
July 8, 1982 · 11:19 local
Place
San Jose, CA
Airport
Reid Hillview
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N11681
Reported as
Bbavia 7KCAB
Reported engine
Lycoming IO320E2A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,651 total119 in this make and model2 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.

Greenhouse window over cockpit blew out practicing aerobatics. Landed safely. No evidence of prefailure defect.

As the FAA filed it

GREENHOUSE WINDOW OVER COCKPIT BLEW OUT PRACTICING AEROBATICS. LANDED SAFELY. NO EVIDENCE OF PREFAILURE DEFECT.