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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech C23 · Nashville, TN · August 23, 1989

Date
August 23, 1989 · 08:25 local
Place
Nashville, TN
Airport
Nashville International Airport
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N9724Q
Reported as
Beech C23
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
125 total19 in this make and model55 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.

While tuning portable radio on approach, pilot wandered off course and ended up near wrong runway.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE TUNING PORTABLE RADIO ON APPROACH, PILOT WANDERED OFF COURSE AND ENDED UP NEAR WRONG RUNWAY.