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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Blanca 17-30A · Oklahoma City, OK · July 8, 1997

Date
July 8, 1997 · 13:30 local
Place
Oklahoma City, OK
Airport
Downtown Airpark Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N14792
Reported as
Blanca 1730A
Reported engine
Continental IO520L
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total30 in this make and model30 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.

Smoke on climbout. Landed on closed runway. Veered onto grass. Ground crew put out fire. Right exhaust broke.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE ON CLIMBOUT. LANDED ON CLOSED RUNWAY. VEERED ONTO GRASS. GROUND CREW PUT OUT FIRE. RIGHT EXHAUST BROKE.