19891013040279I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr Sportbiplane · Cumberland, MD · October 13, 1989

Date
October 13, 1989 · 18:00 local
Place
Cumberland, MD
Airport
Mexico Farms Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N15EL
Reported as
Amtr Sportbiplane
Reported engine
Lycoming O235*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,000 total102 in this make and model9 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.

Engine quit at pattern altitude. Emergency landing at airport. Landed hard.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE QUIT AT PATTERN ALTITUDE. EMERGENCY LANDING AT AIRPORT. LANDED HARD.