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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · Galveston, TX · May 4, 1997

Date
May 4, 1997 · 10:20 local
Place
Galveston, TX
Airport
Scholes Field Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N87721
Reported as
Piper J3C65
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,800 total735 in this make and model25 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: Mr. Torbett landed at Galveston airport (gls), on rollout the wind got under the tail and nosed it over, resulting in prop damage. privacy data omitted

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: MR. TORBETT LANDED AT GALVESTON AIRPORT (GLS), ON ROLLOUT THE WIND GOT UNDER THE TAIL AND NOSED IT OVER, RESULTING IN PROP DAMAGE. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^