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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA22150 · Silverplume, CO · September 23, 1984

Date
September 23, 1984 · 13:19 local
Place
Silverplume, CO
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N60RB
Reported as
Piper PA22150
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total57 in this make and model30 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.

Encountered downdraft in mountain terrain. Unable to check descent landed on a freeway. Inskilled in mountain area.

As the FAA filed it

ENCOUNTERED DOWNDRAFT IN MOUNTAIN TERRAIN. UNABLE TO CHECK DESCENT LANDED ON A FREEWAY. INSKILLED IN MOUNTAIN AREA.