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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrat FALCON XP · Rothbury, MI · September 10, 1988

Date
September 10, 1988 · 19:00 local
Place
Rothbury, MI
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N275CB
Reported as
Amtrat Falconxp
Reported engine
ROTAX ROTAX503
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
331 total51 in this make and model1 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 in field when a propellor drive belt failed. Hard landing caused damage to landing gear.

As the FAA filed it

FORCED LANDING IN FIELD WHEN A PROPELLOR DRIVE BELT FAILED. HARD LANDING CAUSED DAMAGE TO LANDING GEAR.