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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Waco UPF-7 · Kill Devil Hill, NC · July 6, 1996

Date
July 6, 1996 · 17:20 local
Place
Kill Devil Hill, NC
Airport
First Flight Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N32132
Reported as
Waco UPF7
Reported engine
Continental R670A
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,300 total1,650 in this make and model120 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.

Narrative: during landing and brake application, right brake control cable eye bolt sheared in half. Due to the eye bolt failure and uneven ground braking the aircraft ground looped, damaging the lower right wing and elevator.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: DURING LANDING AND BRAKE APPLICATION, RIGHT BRAKE CONTROL CABLE EYE BOLT SHEARED IN HALF. DUE TO THE EYE BOLT FAILURE AND UNEVEN GROUND BRAKING THE AIRCRAFT GROUND LOOPED, DAMAGING THE LOWER RIGHT WING AND ELEVATOR.

Other reports on N32132 · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.