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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC863 · Poughkeepsie, NY · September 24, 1982

Date
September 24, 1982 · 22:36 local
Place
Poughkeepsie, NY
Airport
Gutchess County
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
ARWA
Aircraft
N6161A
Reported as
Doug DC863
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,000 total3,500 in this make and model250 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.

Pilot on an instrument approach landed at wrong airport. Did not have required charts on board the aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ON AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH LANDED AT WRONG AIRPORT. DID NOT HAVE REQUIRED CHARTS ON BOARD THE AIRCRAFT.