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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Schleicher ASW-27 · Homestead, FL · February 22, 2009

Date
February 22, 2009 · 15:00 local
Place
Homestead, FL
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N711KY
Reported as
Schleicher ASW-27
Reported engine
NONE NONE
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
900 total200 in this make and model50 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.

Aircraft did not have enough altitude to reach a suitable landing area and performed an emergency landing into a inhabitated area.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH ALTITUDE TO REACH A SUITABLE LANDING AREA AND PERFORMED AN EMERGENCY LANDING INTO A INHABITATED AREA.