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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Clark James D PATRIOT 300 · Hockley, TX · March 20, 1997

Date
March 20, 1997 · 17:30 local
Place
Hockley, TX
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N397DC
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,500 total2,000 in this make and model50 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 was making a landing on a wet grass runway. The right wheel fairing filled with mud. The wheel stopped turning. The aircraft pulled to the right and slid into soft mud. The aircraft flipped over. Minor damage. No injuries to the pilot.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: THE PILOT WAS MAKING A LANDING ON A WET GRASS RUNWAY. THE RIGHT WHEEL FAIRING FILLED WITH MUD. THE WHEEL STOPPED TURNING. THE AIRCRAFT PULLED TO THE RIGHT AND SLID INTO SOFT MUD. THE AIRCRAFT FLIPPED OVER. MINOR DAMAGE. NO INJURIES TO THE PILOT.