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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-300 · Creston, WA · August 27, 1987

Date: August 27, 1987 · 23:45 local
Place: Creston, WA
Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N33645
Reported as: Piper PA32300
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 150 total5 in this make and model

N33645Registered now · Piper PA-32-300S/N 32-7540108 · Built 1975 Airframe modelPiper PA-32-300 Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 seriesTurbo-prop

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.

Became disoriented at night. Landed on a road with fuel supply near depletion.

As the FAA filed it

BECAME DISORIENTED AT NIGHT. LANDED ON A ROAD WITH FUEL SUPPLY NEAR DEPLETION.