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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 65 · Childress, TX · August 23, 1984

Date
August 23, 1984 · 11:00 local
Place
Childress, TX
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9AG
Reported as
Beech 65
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,700 total2,000 in this make and model100 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 buzzard during a low level geophysical survey. Buzzard penetrated the windshield and injured the pilot.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK A BUZZARD DURING A LOW LEVEL GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY. BUZZARD PENETRATED THE WINDSHIELD AND INJURED THE PILOT.

Other reports on N9AG · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.