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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr Pulsar · Allentown, PA · July 11, 1996

Date
July 11, 1996 · 10:00 local
Place
Allentown, PA
Airport
Allentown Queen City
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8105X
Reported as
Amtr Pulsar
Reported engine
ROTAX ROTAX582
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
296 total11 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.

Narrative: flight was initial stage of flight testing for 40 hours. Landing on runway 25 was normal. However, at the end of the rollout, the pilot began to apply heel brakes due to downward slope of runway. Airplane abruptly nosed over, splintering wooden prop and scraping spinner and lower cowl.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: FLIGHT WAS INITIAL STAGE OF FLIGHT TESTING FOR 40 HOURS. LANDING ON RUNWAY 25 WAS NORMAL. HOWEVER, AT THE END OF THE ROLLOUT, THE PILOT BEGAN TO APPLY HEEL BRAKES DUE TO DOWNWARD SLOPE OF RUNWAY. AIRPLANE ABRUPTLY NOSED OVER, SPLINTERING WOODEN PROP AND SCRAPING SPINNER AND LOWER COWL.