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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Balwks FIREFLY 5 · Charlotte, NC · June 3, 1985

Date
June 3, 1985 · 06:50 local
Place
Charlotte, NC
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3703L
Reported as
Balwks FIREFLY5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total500 in this make and model60 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.

Flight ended with high wind landing preceding thunderstorm line. Struck storage building, injury to passengers.

As the FAA filed it

FLIGHT ENDED WITH HIGH WIND LANDING PRECEDING THUNDERSTORM LINE. STRUCK STORAGE BUILDING, INJURY TO PASSENGERS.