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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr Parakeet · Morgan Hill, CA · January 9, 1983

Date: January 9, 1983 · 17:00 local
Place: Morgan Hill, CA
Airport: South County
Phase of flight: Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N80RG
Reported as: Amtr Parakeet
Reported engine: Continental C8512
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 600 total129 in this make and model5 in the last 90 days

N80RGRegistered now · Borg Richard R PARAKEET REP RB-100S/N 101 Airframe modelBorg Richard R PARAKEET REP RB-100 Engine modelContinental C85 seriesReciprocating

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 struck wires while flying at a low altitude down a freeway. Able to fly aircraft to the nearest airport.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STRUCK WIRES WHILE FLYING AT A LOW ALTITUDE DOWN A FREEWAY. ABLE TO FLY AIRCRAFT TO THE NEAREST AIRPORT.

Other reports on N80RG · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

Incident 19801012073849IStarting Engines · Hollister, CAAircraft jumped chocks and struck a hangar after being hand propped.Oct 12, 1980 · Reported as Amtr PARRAKEETA4C · Substantial damage