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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrvp Vampire · Mesa, AZ · August 18, 1988

Date
August 18, 1988 · 09:59 local
Place
Mesa, AZ
Airport
Falcon Field Airport
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3153Y
Reported as
Amtrvp Vampire
Reported engine
ROTAX ROTAX503
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total70 in this make and model20 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.

Forced landing after takeoff due to power loss. Landing gear collapsed on rollout. Aircraft veered off runway.

As the FAA filed it

FORCED LANDING AFTER TAKEOFF DUE TO POWER LOSS. LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED ON ROLLOUT. AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF RUNWAY.