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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Luscom 8A · Greenfield, IN · August 21, 1998

Date
August 21, 1998 · 10:45 local
Place
Greenfield, IN
Airport
Popefield Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N72000
Reported as
Luscom 8A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total2,300 in this make and model14 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.

Upon landing, the aircraft's left wing tip made contact with corn adjacent to runway. The aircraft ground-looped and came to rest partially in the corn. The airman indicated that the right rudder pedal cover came off and may have contributed to directional control on landing.

As the FAA filed it

UPON LANDING, THE AIRCRAFT'S LEFT WING TIP MADE CONTACT WITH CORN ADJACENT TO RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT GROUND-LOOPED AND CAME TO REST PARTIALLY IN THE CORN. THE AIRMAN INDICATED THAT THE RIGHT RUDDER PEDAL COVER CAME OFF AND MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON LANDING.