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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing A75N1 · Louisville, KY · October 19, 1996

Date
October 19, 1996 · 14:00 local
Place
Louisville, KY
Airport
Bowman Field Airport
Phase of flight
Touch And Go Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5SS
Reported as
Boeing A75N1
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,500 total2,000 in this make and model10 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 was practicing take offs and landings on landing pilot misjudged wind and lower left wingtip drug on the runway causing the aircraft to ground loop. Aircraft did not exit the runway. Minor damage incident closed.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: PILOT WAS PRACTICING TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS ON LANDING PILOT MISJUDGED WIND AND LOWER LEFT WINGTIP DRUG ON THE RUNWAY CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO GROUND LOOP. AIRCRAFT DID NOT EXIT THE RUNWAY. MINOR DAMAGE INCIDENT CLOSED.