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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA20 · Fayette, MO · January 20, 1986

Date: January 20, 1986 · 20:30 local
Place: Fayette, MO
Airport: Private
Phase of flight: Go Round (Aborted VFR)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N4994M
Reported as: Piper PA20
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 290 total50 in this make and model8 in the last 90 days

N4994MRegistration cancelled Sep 6, 2019 · Piper PA-11S/N 11481 · Built 1948 Airframe modelPiper PA-11 Engine modelContinental C90 seriesReciprocating

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.

Struck fence post during aborted landing at night. Damage to horizontal stabilizer.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK FENCE POST DURING ABORTED LANDING AT NIGHT. DAMAGE TO HORIZONTAL STABILIZER.