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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Christen Industries A-1 · Moses Lake, WA · October 19, 2020

Date
October 19, 2020 · 13:00 local
Place
Moses Lake, WA
Phase of flight
Landing: Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N9600J
Reported as
Christen Industries A-1
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
209 total26 in this make and model44 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.

On final approach to a private field, aircraft struck power lines and crashed short of the runway.

As the FAA filed it

ON FINAL APPROACH TO A PRIVATE FIELD, AIRCRAFT STRUCK POWER LINES AND CRASHED SHORT OF THE RUNWAY.