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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech B36TC · Coalinga, CA · August 10, 1986

Date
August 10, 1986 · 18:30 local
Place
Coalinga, CA
Airport
Harris Ranch
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N117FM
Reported as
Beech B36TC
Reported engine
Continental TSIO520H
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
550 total200 in this make and model40 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.

Lost control after a bad bounce on landing. Veered off runway into a cotton field. Blamed gusty surface winds.

As the FAA filed it

LOST CONTROL AFTER A BAD BOUNCE ON LANDING. VEERED OFF RUNWAY INTO A COTTON FIELD. BLAMED GUSTY SURFACE WINDS.