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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28161 · Wink, TX · July 24, 1982

Date
July 24, 1982 · 12:30 local
Place
Wink, TX
Airport
Wink
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N47849
Reported as
Piper PA28161
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
74 total43 in this make and model18 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.

Went around due to vortices, landed long to avoid same. Lost control and ran off runway into mesquite.

As the FAA filed it

WENT AROUND DUE TO VORTICES, LANDED LONG TO AVOID SAME. LOST CONTROL AND RAN OFF RUNWAY INTO MESQUITE.