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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Airbus A320-231 · Las Vegas, NV · August 29, 1991

Date
August 29, 1991 · 15:00 local
Place
Las Vegas, NV
Airport
Mc Carran International
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AWXA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N624AW
Reported as
Airbus A320231
People aboard
110
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.

Bird strike on right wing leading edge on descent into Las Vegas. Landed safely.

As the FAA filed it

BIRD STRIKE ON RIGHT WING LEADING EDGE ON DESCENT INTO LAS VEGAS. LANDED SAFELY.