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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Doug DC3A · Brownsville, TX · April 24, 1987

Date
April 24, 1987 · 17:46 local
Place
Brownsville, TX
Airport
Rheemair
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N50E
Reported as
Doug DC3A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0

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 downwind on short runway. Ground looped, nosed down to prevent running off runway.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED DOWNWIND ON SHORT RUNWAY. GROUND LOOPED, NOSED DOWN TO PREVENT RUNNING OFF RUNWAY.