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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm 690A · Charleston, WV · May 10, 1983

Date
May 10, 1983 · 08:45 local
Place
Charleston, WV
Airport
Kanawha
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N953HF
Reported as
Gulstm 690A
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,000 total10,000 in this make and model150 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.

Pilots windshield cracked and crazed en route. Depressurized and made emergency descent.

As the FAA filed it

PILOTS WINDSHIELD CRACKED AND CRAZED EN ROUTE. DEPRESSURIZED AND MADE EMERGENCY DESCENT.