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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Balwks FIREFLY 8B · Franklin, TN · June 29, 1988

Date
June 29, 1988 · 19:40 local
Place
Franklin, TN
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7108K
Reported as
Balwks FIREFLY8B
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 total60 in this make and model10 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.

Chose a smaller than normal landing area due to fuel,wind and weather. Envelope caught on trees and damaged.

As the FAA filed it

CHOSE A SMALLER THAN NORMAL LANDING AREA DUE TO FUEL,WIND AND WEATHER. ENVELOPE CAUGHT ON TREES AND DAMAGED.