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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrsn Skybolt · Mexican Hat, UT · July 5, 1983

Date
July 5, 1983 · 14:00 local
Place
Mexican Hat, UT
Airport
Monument Valley
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N360HP
Reported as
Amtrsn Skybolt
Reported engine
Lycoming O320*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,500 total400 in this make and model50 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.

Landed on a recently bladed dirt runway. Rough and still rutted runway caused the landing gear attach weld to fail.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED ON A RECENTLY BLADED DIRT RUNWAY. ROUGH AND STILL RUTTED RUNWAY CAUSED THE LANDING GEAR ATTACH WELD TO FAIL.