19811022075019I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrbx BENSENB8* · Raleigh, NC · October 22, 1981

Date
October 22, 1981 · 11:03 local
Place
Raleigh, NC
Airport
Raleigh-Durham
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N18GC
Reported as
Amtrbx BENSENB8*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total33 in this make and model20 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.

Experimental gyroplane test flight. Pilot landed aircraft misaligned with runway. Aircraft rolled over.

As the FAA filed it

EXPERIMENTAL GYROPLANE TEST FLIGHT. PILOT LANDED AIRCRAFT MISALIGNED WITH RUNWAY. AIRCRAFT ROLLED OVER.