# Incident 19880830050809I: Piper PA28181, Miles City, August 30, 1988

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 30, 1988, 10:30 local time
- Place: Miles City
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Unauth Low Level Opns
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Aircraft: N4350F, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N4350F-2013-07-15) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-181 (registry code 7102807, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-181) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28181
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 4,000 total, 2,000 in this make and model, 30 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880830050809I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

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.

- [Accident 20051216029729A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20051216029729A), Dec 16, 2005: Piper PA28181 (N4350F), Butte, MT, Destroyed, 1 fatal. (-23) Aircraft left miles city, Montana, on December 16, 2005. A flight plan was not filed. A witness saw the aircraft at approximately 1740 local. The witness…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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