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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Balwks FIREFLY 6B · Grand Rapids, MI · August 12, 1985

Date
August 12, 1985 · 20:15 local
Place
Grand Rapids, MI
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4058V
Reported as
Balwks FIREFLY6B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
25 total10 in this make and model8 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.

Contacted high tension wires after entering an unintentional descent from 300 feet.

As the FAA filed it

CONTACTED HIGH TENSION WIRES AFTER ENTERING AN UNINTENTIONAL DESCENT FROM 300 FEET.