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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA20 · Lubbock, TX · August 10, 1996

Date
August 10, 1996 · 17:00 local
Place
Lubbock, TX
Airport
Lubbock International Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8896C
Reported as
Piper PA20
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total15 in this make and model3 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: pilot flying aircraft ground looped during landing roll. Pilot was receiving flight instruction in a tailwheel airplane. Minor damage to wing tip and tailwheel. Delayed recognition of loss of control.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT FLYING AIRCRAFT GROUND LOOPED DURING LANDING ROLL. PILOT WAS RECEIVING FLIGHT INSTRUCTION IN A TAILWHEEL AIRPLANE. MINOR DAMAGE TO WING TIP AND TAILWHEEL. DELAYED RECOGNITION OF LOSS OF CONTROL.