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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper AEROSTAR 601P · La Porte, TX · August 24, 1997

Date: August 24, 1997 · 17:15 local
Place: La Porte, TX
Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N66GC
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 6,500 total2 in this make and model10 in the last 90 days

N66GCRegistered now · Piper AEROSTAR 601PS/N 61P07067963339 · Built 1979 Airframe modelPiper AEROSTAR 601P Engine modelLycoming IO-540 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: the aircraft canopy departed the aircraft 5 miles northeast of laport, Texas while the aircraft was in level cruise flight over the gulf. Minor damage resulted to the right horizontal stabilizer. The pilot landed the aircraft at laport, TX without incident. There were no injuries sustained by the pilot nor anyone on the water.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: THE AIRCRAFT CANOPY DEPARTED THE AIRCRAFT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAPORT, TEXAS WHILE THE AIRCRAFT WAS IN LEVEL CRUISE FLIGHT OVER THE GULF. MINOR DAMAGE RESULTED TO THE RIGHT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER. THE PILOT LANDED THE AIRCRAFT AT LAPORT, TX WITHOUT INCIDENT. THERE WERE NO INJURIES SUSTAINED BY THE PILOT NOR ANYONE ON THE WATER.