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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-161 · Ft.Pierce, FL · January 27, 2011

Date
January 27, 2011 · 20:00 local
Place
Ft.Pierce, FL
Phase of flight
Climb
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N748RA
Reported as
Piper PA-28-161
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
0 total0 in this make and model0 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.

Bird strike occured at 800' above the threshold of runway 10L.possibly more than one bird by the amount of blood & damage to leading edge.

As the FAA filed it

BIRD STRIKE OCCURED AT 800' ABOVE THE THRESHOLD OF RUNWAY 10L.POSSIBLY MORE THAN ONE BIRD BY THE AMOUNT OF BLOOD & DAMAGE TO LEADING EDGE.