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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrbx BENSEN B-8M · Greencastle, IN · July 22, 1995

Date
July 22, 1995 · 14:25 local
Place
Greencastle, IN
Airport
Putman County Airport
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8490T
Reported as
Amtrbx BENSENB8M
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 total70 in this make and model15 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.

Touch and go with unregistered gyroplane. Got too slow turning downwind. Settled into adjacent cornfield.

As the FAA filed it

TOUCH AND GO WITH UNREGISTERED GYROPLANE. GOT TOO SLOW TURNING DOWNWIND. SETTLED INTO ADJACENT CORNFIELD.