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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Child S1TPITTS · Fort Worth, TX · August 13, 1989

Date
August 13, 1989 · 14:15 local
Place
Fort Worth, TX
Airport
Fort Worth Spinks Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N396DC
Reported as
Child S1TPITTS
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,650 total500 in this make and model40 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.

Attempting snap roll when control stick broke. Lost directional control on rollout. Wing hit runway.

As the FAA filed it

ATTEMPTING SNAP ROLL WHEN CONTROL STICK BROKE. LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON ROLLOUT. WING HIT RUNWAY.