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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 310 · Indianapolis, IN · August 6, 1988

Date
August 6, 1988 · 19:30 local
Place
Indianapolis, IN
Airport
Metro
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N611U
Reported as
Cessna 310
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,800 total400 in this make and model130 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.

Aircraft collided with a duck at cruise altitude. Aircraft landed safely. Minor damage.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT COLLIDED WITH A DUCK AT CRUISE ALTITUDE. AIRCRAFT LANDED SAFELY. MINOR DAMAGE.