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Incident

FAA incident report · Bbavia 7ECA · Needles, CA · December 25, 1989

Date
December 25, 1989 · 21:18 local
Place
Needles, CA
Airport
Needles Airport
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N5069F
Reported as
Bbavia 7ECA
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.

Pilot performed aerobatics over town. Police met flight. Pilot refused to take alcohol text.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT PERFORMED AEROBATICS OVER TOWN. POLICE MET FLIGHT. PILOT REFUSED TO TAKE ALCOHOL TEXT.