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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 180A · Topeka, KS · May 27, 1988

Date
May 27, 1988 · 11:28 local
Place
Topeka, KS
Airport
Forbes Field
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N5393D
Reported as
Cessna 180A
Reported engine
Continental O470K
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
615 total21 in this make and model41 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.

Pilot landed on runway with a crosswind component. Lost control and veered off runway. Ground looped the aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED ON RUNWAY WITH A CROSSWIND COMPONENT. LOST CONTROL AND VEERED OFF RUNWAY. GROUND LOOPED THE AIRCRAFT.