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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Namer SNJ-6 · Seward, NE · May 20, 2000

Date
May 20, 2000 · 13:40 local
Place
Seward, NE
Airport
Seward Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2861G
Reported as
Namer SNJ6
Pilot’s flight hours
4,300 total260 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.

(-23)Aircraft was landing on runway 16 in three point attitude, right cross wind caused aircraft to weather vane to the right. Pilot chose to allow aircraft to continue into the grass, where aircraft struck unseen non-collapsible runway marker. Aircraft tipped upon nose causing damage to the propeller and under left wing.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)AIRCRAFT WAS LANDING ON RUNWAY 16 IN THREE POINT ATTITUDE, RIGHT CROSS WIND CAUSED AIRCRAFT TO WEATHER VANE TO THE RIGHT. PILOT CHOSE TO ALLOW AIRCRAFT TO CONTINUE INTO THE GRASS, WHERE AIRCRAFT STRUCK UNSEEN NON-COLLAPSIBLE RUNWAY MARKER. AIRCRAFT TIPPED UPON NOSE CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE PROPELLER AND UNDER LEFT WING.