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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Adamst THORP T-211 · Oklahoma City, OK · July 12, 1998

Date
July 12, 1998 · 16:00 local
Place
Oklahoma City, OK
Airport
Sundance Airpark Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4179S
Reported as
Adamst THORPT211
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
900 total262 in this make and model15 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.

The pilot was taxiing the aircraft into the wind with the controls tied back with the seat belt. The aircraft went airborne and landed nose first. The landing gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT WAS TAXIING THE AIRCRAFT INTO THE WIND WITH THE CONTROLS TIED BACK WITH THE SEAT BELT. THE AIRCRAFT WENT AIRBORNE AND LANDED NOSE FIRST. THE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED.