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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Miles City · August 30, 1988

Date
August 30, 1988 · 10:30 local
Place
Miles City
Phase of flight
Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4350F
Reported as
Piper PA28181
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total2,000 in this make and model30 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 hit powerline while flying low on a search and rescue effort. Forest fire smoke limited visibility.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT HIT POWERLINE WHILE FLYING LOW ON A SEARCH AND RESCUE EFFORT. FOREST FIRE SMOKE LIMITED VISIBILITY.

Other reports on N4350F · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.