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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 58 · St Louis, MO · March 27, 1988

Date
March 27, 1988 · 21:23 local
Place
St Louis, MO
Airport
Lambert-St Louis International
Phase of flight
Initial Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6725T
Reported as
Beech 58
Reported engine
Continental IO520CB
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,000 total2,000 in this make and model110 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.

Bird hit aircraft windshield and entered cockpit on a visual approach to airport.

As the FAA filed it

BIRD HIT AIRCRAFT WINDSHIELD AND ENTERED COCKPIT ON A VISUAL APPROACH TO AIRPORT.