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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Waco UPF-7 · Franconia, NH · May 27, 1990

Date: May 27, 1990 · 14:25 local
Place: Franconia, NH
Phase of flight: Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N29923
Reported as: Waco UPF7
People aboard: 3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 25,000 total400 in this make and model225 in the last 90 days

N29923Registered now · Waco UPF-7S/N 5420 · Built 1940 Airframe modelWaco UPF-7 Engine modelContinental W670 seriesReciprocating

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.

Caught in downdraft in mountains. Unable to recover. Hit trees and landed on mountain slope.

As the FAA filed it

CAUGHT IN DOWNDRAFT IN MOUNTAINS. UNABLE TO RECOVER. HIT TREES AND LANDED ON MOUNTAIN SLOPE.