19860913051759I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtros OSPREY2 · Ellington, CT · September 13, 1986

Date
September 13, 1986 · 17:00 local
Place
Ellington, CT
Airport
Ellington
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N86JW
Reported as
Amtros OSPREY2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total0 in this make and model3 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.

On first flight of homebuilt aircraft, airspeed went to zero,followed by hard landing. Found mud in pitot tube.

As the FAA filed it

ON FIRST FLIGHT OF HOMEBUILT AIRCRAFT, AIRSPEED WENT TO ZERO,FOLLOWED BY HARD LANDING.FOUND MUD IN PITOT TUBE.