19990503017209I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Spartn 7W · Franklin, VA · May 3, 1999

Date
May 3, 1999 · 16:54 local
Place
Franklin, VA
Airport
Franklin Municipal-John Beverly Arp
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N17633
Reported as
Spartn 7W
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R985*
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,800 total700 in this make and model20 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.

Pilot landed on runway 32 with winds of 0207G18. Pilot landed hard on the left main with possibly some sideward drifting, and the left main was sheared off. Aircraft veered off the left side of the runway shearing the right main gear off.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED ON RUNWAY 32 WITH WINDS OF 0207G18. PILOT LANDED HARD ON THE LEFT MAIN WITH POSSIBLY SOME SIDEWARD DRIFTING, AND THE LEFT MAIN WAS SHEARED OFF. AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RUNWAY SHEARING THE RIGHT MAIN GEAR OFF.