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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrst P51AMTR · Midland, TX · August 5, 1987

Date
August 5, 1987 · 16:42 local
Place
Midland, TX
Airport
Midland Regional
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N51JR
Reported as
Amtrst P51AMTR
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,000 total0 in this make and model300 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.

The aircraft veered off the taxiway while the pilot was conducting high speed taxi tests. Left gear bracket failed.

As the FAA filed it

THE AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF THE TAXIWAY WHILE THE PILOT WAS CONDUCTING HIGH SPEED TAXI TESTS. LEFT GEAR BRACKET FAILED.