What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Ran out of gas on approach.
As the FAA filed it
RAN OUT OF GAS ON APPROACH.
FAA incident report · Piper PA-12 · Anchorage, AK · June 24, 1990
- Date
- June 24, 1990 · 10:53 local
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- Merrill Field Airport
- Phase of flight
- Final Approach
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Aircraft
- N78558
- Reported as
- Piper PA12
- People aboard
- 1
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 100 total100 in this make and model30 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.