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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna A152 · Jeffrey City, WY · May 11, 1985

Date
May 11, 1985 · 15:00 local
Place
Jeffrey City, WY
Airport
Private
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4958A
Reported as
Cessna A152
Reported engine
Lycoming O235L2C
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,960 total615 in this make and model50 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.

High velocity gust in advance of thunderstorm flipped aircraft over. Pilot was just starting engine in tiedown area

As the FAA filed it

HIGH VELOCITY GUST IN ADVANCE OF THUNDERSTORM FLIPPED AIRCRAFT OVER. PILOT WAS JUST STARTING ENGINE IN TIEDOWN AREA