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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Cessna 170B · Lowell, MI · May 31, 1981

Date
May 31, 1981 · 14:00 local
Place
Lowell, MI
Airport
Lowell City
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N2863C
Reported as
Cessna 170B
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
154 total14 in this make and model32 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.

Ballooned on landing. Lost control, ground-looped. Unskilled in tail wheel type airplanes.

As the FAA filed it

BALLOONED ON LANDING. LOST CONTROL, GROUND-LOOPED. UNSKILLED IN TAIL WHEEL TYPE AIRPLANES.