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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-20 · Elko, NV · March 30, 1987

Date
March 30, 1987 · 11:50 local
Place
Elko, NV
Airport
Elko Municipal - J C Harris Field
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7332K
Reported as
Piper PA20
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,210 total1,000 in this make and model30 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.

Tail wheel shimmy on rollout. Pilot applied full right brake to stop veer and a ground loop resulted.

As the FAA filed it

TAIL WHEEL SHIMMY ON ROLLOUT. PILOT APPLIED FULL RIGHT BRAKE TO STOP VEER AND A GROUND LOOP RESULTED.