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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech 58 · Tacoma, WA · June 29, 1989

Date
June 29, 1989 · 13:11 local
Place
Tacoma, WA
Airport
Mcchord Afb
Phase of flight
Initial Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N11SC
Reported as
Beech 58
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0

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.

Confusion or lack of communication between tower and approach control. Pilot landed on wrong runway.

As the FAA filed it

CONFUSION OR LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TOWER AND APPROACH CONTROL. PILOT LANDED ON WRONG RUNWAY.