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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 414 · Gallup, NM · December 29, 1990

Date
December 29, 1990 · 14:01 local
Place
Gallup, NM
Airport
Gallup Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N69576
Reported as
Cessna 414
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.

Severe turbulence at altitude. Had a vomiting passenger. Lost 600 feet of assigned altitude before recovering.

As the FAA filed it

SEVERE TURBULENCE AT ALTITUDE. HAD A VOMITING PASSENGER. LOST 600 FEET OF ASSIGNED ALTITUDE BEFORE RECOVERING.