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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA18 · Anchorage, AK · July 23, 1980

Date
July 23, 1980 · 11:30 local
Place
Anchorage, AK
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N75804
Reported as
Piper PA18
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
824 total400 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.

On landing rollout on sandbar right gear dropped into a hole. Aircraft swerved, wingtip and gear damaged.

As the FAA filed it

ON LANDING ROLLOUT ON SANDBAR RIGHT GEAR DROPPED INTO A HOLE. AIRCRAFT SWERVED, WINGTIP AND GEAR DAMAGED.