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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna T303 · Bridgeport, CT · May 4, 1984

Date
May 4, 1984 · 16:49 local
Place
Bridgeport, CT
Airport
Igor I Sikorsky
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4962C
Reported as
Cessna T303
Reported engine
Continental TSIO520AE
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total500 in this make and model130 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.

Struck a swan on final approach. Swan impacted on left engine.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK A SWAN ON FINAL APPROACH. SWAN IMPACTED ON LEFT ENGINE.