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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Eclipse EA500 · Millington, TN · June 3, 2020

Date
June 3, 2020 · 13:55 local
Place
Millington, TN
Airport
Walnut Ridge Regional Airport
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N504TC
Reported as
Eclipse EA500
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0

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 leveled at FL410 around arg and experienced hail which resulted in radio failure and cracked windshield. Landed with light gun signals at Millington airport in TN.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT LEVELED AT FL410 AROUND ARG AND EXPERIENCED HAIL WHICH RESULTED IN RADIO FAILURE AND CRACKED WINDSHIELD. LANDED WITH LIGHT GUN SIGNALS AT MILLINGTON AIRPORT IN TN.