19861019063509I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA60600 · Oak Grove, TX · October 19, 1986

Date
October 19, 1986 · 15:35 local
Place
Oak Grove, TX
Airport
Oak Grove
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4VH
Reported as
Piper PA60600
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,500 total1,100 in this make and model100 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.

Wingtip struck a wire fence as performer was building airspeed for a hammer head stall. Wingtip severed.

As the FAA filed it

WINGTIP STRUCK A WIRE FENCE AS PERFORMER WAS BUILDING AIRSPEED FOR A HAMMER HEAD STALL. WINGTIP SEVERED.