FAA incident report · Piper PA-16 · Fitchburg, MA · August 11, 1997
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.
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Ground looped to left landing. Folded right gear. Wing tip hit. Pilot accidently pulled brake on instead carb heat.
GROUND LOOPED TO LEFT LANDING. FOLDED RIGHT GEAR. WING TIP HIT. PILOT ACCIDENTLY PULLED BRAKE ON INSTEAD CARB HEAT.