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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150J · September 12, 1996

Date
September 12, 1996 · 18:00 local
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N51319
Reported as
Cessna 150J
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
61 total25 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: the pilot stated that he landed in a vacant farm field. Upon taxiing to the farm house, the aircraft was crossing a freshly plowed area of the field, and the nose wheel struck a furrow and the aircraft overturned. Pilot used poor judgment trying to taxi on a plowed field.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: THE PILOT STATED THAT HE LANDED IN A VACANT FARM FIELD. UPON TAXIING TO THE FARM HOUSE, THE AIRCRAFT WAS CROSSING A FRESHLY PLOWED AREA OF THE FIELD, AND THE NOSE WHEEL STRUCK A FURROW AND THE AIRCRAFT OVERTURNED. PILOT USED POOR JUDGMENT TRYING TO TAXI ON A PLOWED FIELD.