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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA60602P · Lancaster, PA · August 8, 1991

Date
August 8, 1991 · 11:30 local
Place
Lancaster, PA
Airport
Lancaster
Phase of flight
In Traffic Pattern-Circling
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N369CC
Reported as
Piper PA60602P
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
22,000 total7,000 in this make and model35 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.

On downwind leg hit a large bird. Leading edge of the right wing damaged.

As the FAA filed it

ON DOWNWIND LEG HIT A LARGE BIRD. LEADING EDGE OF THE RIGHT WING DAMAGED.