19880504020079I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Amtr DRAGONFLY · Montgomery, NY · May 4, 1988

Date
May 4, 1988 · 08:00 local
Place
Montgomery, NY
Airport
Orange County Airport
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N58DF
Reported as
Amtr Dragonfly
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total3 in this make and model4 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.

Lost directional control on a high speed taxi test. Ground looped the aircraft. No intention to fly.

As the FAA filed it

LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON A HIGH SPEED TAXI TEST. GROUND LOOPED THE AIRCRAFT. NO INTENTION TO FLY.