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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA18 · Clyde Park, MT · May 29, 1981

Date
May 29, 1981 · 09:10 local
Place
Clyde Park, MT
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N39852
Reported as
Piper PA18
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,942 total657 in this make and model100 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.

Farmer had plowed landing area to a 15 foot wide landing strip. Pilot got wheel in soft dirt and overturned.

As the FAA filed it

FARMER HAD PLOWED LANDING AREA TO A 15 FOOT WIDE LANDING STRIP. PILOT GOT WHEEL IN SOFT DIRT AND OVERTURNED.