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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · August 24, 1996

Date: August 24, 1996 · 19:40 local
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N25706
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 2
Pilot’s flight hours: 165 total165 in this make and model17 in the last 90 days

N25706Registration cancelled Mar 23, 2018 · Piper J3C-65S/N 3668 · Built 1939 Airframe modelPiper J3C-65 Engine modelFranklin 4AC176B seriesReciprocating

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.

Narrative: after landing the wind shifted and blew the balloon into a light pole resulting in a tear in a panel.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: AFTER LANDING THE WIND SHIFTED AND BLEW THE BALLOON INTO A LIGHT POLE RESULTING IN A TEAR IN A PANEL.