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Incident

FAA incident report · Gulstm G159 · Albany, NY · March 14, 1988

Date
March 14, 1988 · 08:23 local
Place
Albany, NY
Airport
Albany County
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N11NY
Reported as
Gulstm G159
People aboard
6
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,000 total500 in this make and model50 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.

Left ac generator became inoperative. Engine shut down. Landed safely. Found generator had failed.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT AC GENERATOR BECAME INOPERATIVE. ENGINE SHUT DOWN. LANDED SAFELY. FOUND GENERATOR HAD FAILED.