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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bbavia 7AC · Sonoma, CA · July 8, 1983

Date
July 8, 1983 · 13:30 local
Place
Sonoma, CA
Airport
Sonoma Valley
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1421E
Reported as
Bbavia 7AC
Reported engine
Continental A758
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
72 total54 in this make and model32 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.

Left brake stuck during takeoff roll. Veered off the runway into a ditch.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT BRAKE STUCK DURING TAKEOFF ROLL. VEERED OFF THE RUNWAY INTO A DITCH.