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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23 · Wellsville, NY · July 31, 1989

Date
July 31, 1989 · 10:00 local
Place
Wellsville, NY
Airport
Wellsville Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N1341A
Reported as
Piper PA23
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
486 total112 in this make and model29 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.

Upon descent at destination weather changed to IFR. Declared emergency and vectored to alternate airport.

As the FAA filed it

UPON DESCENT AT DESTINATION WEATHER CHANGED TO IFR. DECLARED EMERGENCY AND VECTORED TO ALTERNATE AIRPORT.