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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Elwood, IN · September 5, 1993

Date
September 5, 1993 · 09:30 local
Place
Elwood, IN
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5958U
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Reported engine
Lycoming O320E2A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
615 total436 in this make and model25 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.

When pilot realized aircraft was not going to clear trees on takeoff turned and settled into corn field.

As the FAA filed it

WHEN PILOT REALIZED AIRCRAFT WAS NOT GOING TO CLEAR TREES ON TAKEOFF TURNED AND SETTLED INTO CORN FIELD.