What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Clipped top of trees on night landing.
As the FAA filed it
CLIPPED TOP OF TREES ON NIGHT LANDING.
FAA incident report · Piper PA28236 · Somerville, NJ · September 3, 1995
- Date
- September 3, 1995 · 20:30 local
- Place
- Somerville, NJ
- Airport
- Somerset Airport
- Phase of flight
- Final Approach
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N81300
- Reported as
- Piper PA28236
- Reported engine
- Lycoming O540*
- People aboard
- 3
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 1,719 total434 in this make and model32 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.