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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA-5B · Longmont, CO · September 13, 1985

Date
September 13, 1985 · 14:30 local
Place
Longmont, CO
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4555L
Reported as
Gulstm AA5B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
157 total157 in this make and model15 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.

Pilot was near touchdown when he saw a bird. He descended to miss the bird, porpoised and ran off runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS NEAR TOUCHDOWN WHEN HE SAW A BIRD. HE DESCENDED TO MISS THE BIRD, PORPOISED AND RAN OFF RUNWAY.