19850629033499I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-16 · Wilburton, OK · June 29, 1985

Date
June 29, 1985 · 09:00 local
Place
Wilburton, OK
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5378H
Reported as
Piper PA16
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
145 total14 in this make and model40 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.

Lost control of conventional gear airplane during downwind rollout. Ground looped at low speed. Tailwind a factor.

As the FAA filed it

LOST CONTROL OF CONVENTIONAL GEAR AIRPLANE DURING DOWNWIND ROLLOUT. GROUND LOOPED AT LOW SPEED. TAILWIND A FACTOR.