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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm 500RKWELL · Emporia, KS · May 14, 1983

Date
May 14, 1983 · 21:00 local
Place
Emporia, KS
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N768WC
Reported as
Gulstm 500RKWELL
People aboard
6
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,500 total1,500 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.

Emergency exit lost at cruise altitude. Found one of the passengers had tampered with the exit release.

As the FAA filed it

EMERGENCY EXIT LOST AT CRUISE ALTITUDE. FOUND ONE OF THE PASSENGERS HAD TAMPERED WITH THE EXIT RELEASE.