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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · Beaver Springs, PA · August 27, 2011

Date
August 27, 2011 · 11:45 local
Place
Beaver Springs, PA
Airport
Snook
Phase of flight
Landing: Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7385H
Reported as
Piper J3C-65
Reported engine
Continental A&C65 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
675 total350 in this make and model65 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.

While on final for runway 07 aircraft encountered a severe downdraft causing the aircraft to land short of the runway in a beanfield causing minor damage to aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE ON FINAL FOR RUNWAY 07 AIRCRAFT ENCOUNTERED A SEVERE DOWNDRAFT CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO LAND SHORT OF THE RUNWAY IN A BEANFIELD CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT.