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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-12 · Atchison, KS · July 15, 1998

Date
July 15, 1998 · 18:00 local
Place
Atchison, KS
Airport
Amelia Earhart Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7756H
Reported as
Piper PA12
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,060 total6 in this make and model60 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.

(-5) Pilot attempting to land conventional gear airplane, lost directional control and struck fence post.

As the FAA filed it

(-5) PILOT ATTEMPTING TO LAND CONVENTIONAL GEAR AIRPLANE, LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND STRUCK FENCE POST.