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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150E · Clarendon, TX · May 19, 1983

Date: May 19, 1983 · 18:45 local
Place: Clarendon, TX
Airport: Municipal
Phase of flight: Climb
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3040J
Reported as: Cessna 150E
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 345 total170 in this make and model50 in the last 90 days

N3040JRegistered now · Cessna 150ES/N 15061140 · Built 1965 Airframe modelCessna 150E Engine modelContinental 0-200 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.

Loud pop. Rudder jammed. Saw top of rudder had come loose. Landed safely. Top hinge bolt fell out. Nut missing.

As the FAA filed it

LOUD POP. RUDDER JAMMED. SAW TOP OF RUDDER HAD COME LOOSE. LANDED SAFELY. TOP HINGE BOLT FELL OUT. NUT MISSING.